275 ordspråk av Francis Bacon, Sr.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
The worst men often give the best advice.
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays
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There are some other that account wife and children but as bills of charges
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There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place
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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.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise
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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
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