Francis Bacon

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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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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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