QUOTATION: Francis Bacon

Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupateth it.

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Quotation: Francis Bacon on being born and dying

It is as natural to die, as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful, as the other.

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Quotation: Francis Bacon (good old times…)

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious.

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Quotation: Francis Bacon about trust

The greatest trust, between man and man, is the trust of giving counsel. For in other confidences, men commit the parts of life; their lands, their goods … some particular affair; but to such as they make their counselors, they commit the whole.

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Quotation of the Day: Francis Bacon – How to Paradise (on Paradise Lost)

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

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My take on this: The Garden of Eden might have been a place of bliss (ignorant of Power and Knowledge.) What good are they both if they displace you from your natural place: The fruits of power and knowledge are deemed to fall out of grace and loose it.

Today’s Quotation: Francis Bacon (156101626) – On Fortune

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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My take on this: It’s all up in the air, actually…And of course, Fortune can mean different things, to different folks.