People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.
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The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.Francis Bacon
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Francis Bacon
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon
The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
Dreams and predictions ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
Francis Bacon
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