It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
from the book "Essays" by Francis Bacon
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Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty.
from the book "Essays" by Francis Bacon
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone".
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The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.
from the book "Essays" by Francis Bacon
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
from the book "Essays" by Francis Bacon
It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.
from the book "Essays" by Francis Bacon
The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.
from the book "New Organon" by Francis Bacon
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A good name is like a precious ointment; it filleth all around about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
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Time, which is the author of authors.
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Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
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