English - Philosopher | January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626
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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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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
ManKnowNothingMoreLittleThan
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
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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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