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Knowledge is power.
Written by Francis Bacon
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Written by Francis Bacon
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Written by Francis Bacon
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Written by Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Written by Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Written by Francis Bacon
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Written by Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Written by Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Written by Francis Bacon
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Written by Francis Bacon
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Written by Francis Bacon
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Written by Francis Bacon
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Written by Francis Bacon
Friends are thieves of time.
Written by Francis Bacon
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Written by Francis Bacon
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Written by Francis Bacon
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Written by Francis Bacon
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Written by Francis Bacon
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Written by Francis Bacon
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Written by Francis Bacon
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Written by Francis Bacon
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Written by Francis Bacon
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Written by Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Written by Francis Bacon
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Written by Francis Bacon
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Written by Francis Bacon
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Written by Francis Bacon
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Written by Francis Bacon
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Written by Francis Bacon
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Written by Francis Bacon

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