Custom is the principal magistrate of man's life.
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Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still for age will not be defied.Francis Bacon
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
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Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things,
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It is by discourse that men associate and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations, wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.
Francis Bacon
There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him.
Francis Bacon
The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come in danger by it.
Francis Bacon
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