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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

~Francis Bacon

Topics: Beholden Men Much Others Ought Write

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By indignities men come to dignities.

~Francis Bacon

Topics: Come Men

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

~Francis Bacon

Topics: About Commonly Fairer Life Much Shortest Surely Way Ways

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

~Francis Bacon

Topics: Desire Liberty Lose Man Others Over Power Seek Self Strange

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

~Francis Bacon

Topics: Hard Moral Politician Severe Thing True Truly

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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Topics: Know Little Makes Man More Much Nothing Suspect Than

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No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

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Topics: Body Certainly Estate Exercise Just Kingdom Natural Neither Nor Politic True War Without

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It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

~Francis Bacon

Topics: Contempt Either Ever Inward Love Love Is Rewarded Rule Secret True

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 22nd, 1561

Died: April 9th, 1626

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