Francis Bacon Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Vices Quotes

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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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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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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