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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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The master of superstition, is the people and in all superstition, wise men follow fools and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.
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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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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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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
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