Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.Francis Bacon
It is natural to die as to be born.
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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers zeros, is the decay of the whole age.
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
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It is generally better to deal by speech than by letter.
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The surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them.
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