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• In civil business;What first ? Boldness;What second, and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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• The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness, and facility.

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• Merit and good works is the end of man’s motion, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man’s rest.

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• Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves.

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• Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men’s opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it ; but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy.

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• The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, orat least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing.

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• It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty.

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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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• All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

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• The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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• For it is a true Rule that Love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt.

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• It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth Man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

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• It is often seen that bad husbands have very good wives; whether it be that it raiseth the price of their husband’s kindness when it comes, or that the wives take a pride in their patience. But this never fails, if the bad husbands were of their own choosing, against their friends’ consent ; for then they will be sure to make good their own folly.

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• He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? ‘Ayoung man not yet, an elder man not at all.’

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• Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

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• Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet…they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.

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• Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition.

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• The most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in certain self-pleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles.

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• There are some others that account wife and children but as bills of charge.

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• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.

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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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