00:00Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested, that is,
00:06some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to
00:12be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
00:16Francis Bacon
00:19Knowledge is power.
00:22Francis Bacon
00:26There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
00:31Francis Bacon
00:35A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
00:40Francis Bacon
00:44Silence is the virtue of fools.
00:47Francis Bacon
00:51The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
00:55The second best time is now.
00:59Francis Bacon
01:03Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed
01:08it out.
01:10Francis Bacon
01:14Friendship increases joy, and diffuses sorrow.
01:18Francis Bacon
01:22He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of
01:29virtue or mischief.
01:31Francis Bacon
01:35Reading mocketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
01:41Francis Bacon
01:45Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
01:53Francis Bacon
01:56To make a discovery is to reveal a truth.
02:00To discover truth is to be engaged in the pursuit of it.
02:05Francis Bacon
02:09If a man will begin at certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will begin with doubts, he
02:15shall end in certainties.
02:17Francis Bacon
02:20The greatest sin is to be sensible and still commit the act.
02:26Francis Bacon
02:29Fame is a reward of virtue, but it is sometimes the reward of vice.
02:35Francis Bacon
02:39Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
02:42Francis Bacon
02:46The cure for the love of praise is to despise fame.
02:50Francis Bacon
02:54It is a strange thing that in all history we do not find more mention of physicians than of physicians'
03:00cures.
03:02Francis Bacon
03:05An open enemy I fear not, a disguised enemy I fear.
03:11Francis Bacon
03:15Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
03:19Francis Bacon
03:20Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
03:20The cure for the love of history I fear.
03:20I fear.
03:22Francis Bacon
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