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«There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
difference, fool, generally, happiest, The Greatest, thinks, wisdom, wisest
«The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
destitute, destitute of, sincere, solitude, worst
«In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
brightly, darkness, in order, shine, Shining Light, the darkness, The Light
«The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery»
«Knowledge is power.»
«The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.»
«There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
excellent, proportion, proportioned, strangeness
«Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Education,
Travel
| Keywords:
elder, sort, travel, younger
«The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
distorting, distorts, false, irregularly, mingles, mingling, mirror, rayed, rays, receiving, The Nature of Things, X ray
«Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
tire, watching
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