Francis Bacon Quotes, Men Quotes, Vanity Quotes

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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In charity there is no excess.

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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

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

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