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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon
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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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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 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.
Francis Bacon
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon in
Science
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon in
Age
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon in
Change
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Francis Bacon
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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