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• Riches are for spending; and spending for honour and good actions.

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• As if you would call a physician, that is thought good for the cure of the disease you complain of but is unacquainted with your body, and therefore may put you in the way for a present cure but overthroweth your health in some other kind; and so cure the disease and kill the patient.

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• [Friendship] redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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• A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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• It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together, in a few words, than in that speech: ‘Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast, or a god.’

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• The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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• To choose time is to save time.

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• It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

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• It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set a house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

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• It is a poor center of a man’s actions, himself.

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• Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.

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• In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

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• It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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• There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.

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• In all superstition wise men follow fools.

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• It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him.

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• The surest way to prevent seditions…is to take away the matter of them.

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• New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.

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• Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, ‘If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.’

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• There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

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Francis Bacon (265)

Birth:	22nd January, 1561
Death:	9th April, 1626
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Philosopher, Scientist, Statesman

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Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.

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