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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
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