English - Philosopher | January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626
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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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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God's first creature, which was light.
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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