Citations de Bacon

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        Age:-
      
      
         
      
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        "Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in 
        four things: old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old 
        authors to read." 
      
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        "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon." 
      
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        Death:-
      
      
         
      
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        "I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death." 
      
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        Despair:-
      
      
         
      
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        "What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die?" 
      
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        Discovery:-
      
      
         
      
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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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        Doubts:-
      
      
         
      
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        "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content 
        to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." (1605.) 
      
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        Fortune:-
      
      
         
      
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        "Fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther 
        off." 
      
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        Health:-
      
      
         
      
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        "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." 
      
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        Hope:-
      
      
         
      
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        "Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." 
      
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        Idols:-
      
      
         
      
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        "There are four classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake 
        I have assigned names: calling the first class, Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of 
        the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theater." 
      
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        Knowledge:-
      
      
         
      
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        "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." 
      
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        "For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of 
        pleasure in itself." 
      
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        Law:-
      
      
         
      
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        "The laws of the most kingdoms and states have been like buildings of many pieces, and 
        patched up from time to time according to occasion, without frame or model. ... This 
        continual heaping up of laws without digesting them maketh but a chaos and confusion, and 
        turneth the laws many times to become but snares for the people. ... Then look into the 
        state of your laws and justice of your land: purge out multiplicity of laws: clear the 
        incertainty of them: repeal those that are snaring; and press the execution of those that 
        are wholesome and necessary ..." 
      
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        Marriage:-
      
      
         
      
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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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        Nature:-
      
      
         
      
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        "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." 
      
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        Ought v. Is:-
      
      
         
      
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        "We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they 
        ought to do." 
      
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        Philosophy:-
      
      
         
      
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        "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth 
        men's minds about to religion." 
      
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        Politicians:-
      
      
         
      
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        "Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise." 
      
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        "It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty." 
      
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        Reading:-
      
      
         
      
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        "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and 
        digested." 
      
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        "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." 
      
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        Selfishness:-
      
      
         
      
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        "Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others." 
      
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        Wonder:-
      
      
         
      
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        "... the seed of knowledge." 
      
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