Francis Bacon | happiness
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.
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Francis Bacon | great
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
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Francis Bacon | great
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
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Francis Bacon | good
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.
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Francis Bacon | god
But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
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Francis Bacon | god
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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