Francis Bacon

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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