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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.
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It was a high speech of Seneca 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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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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Croesus said to Cambyses That peace was better than war because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
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