Quotes by Francis Bacon

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions,...

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character...

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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing...

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she...

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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