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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.
Francis Bacon
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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
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Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.
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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.
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It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that 'The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.'
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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
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Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Francis Bacon
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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.
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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.
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Men in great place are thrice servants,-servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
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In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.
Francis Bacon