Francis Bacon
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
(topic: books)
- Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
(topic: death)
- 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.
(topic: doubt)
- This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
(topic: friendship)
- Knowledge is power.
(topic: knowledge)
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
(topic: marriage)
- The remedy is worse than the disease.
(topic: medicine)
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