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Explore the profound wisdom of Sir Francis Bacon with this collection of his most memorable quotes. From the power of knowledge to the importance of friendship and the art of reading, these timeless insights will inspire and provoke thought. Discover the brilliance of Bacon alongside other great minds like Shakespeare and Plato.

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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.
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00:19Knowledge is power.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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01:14Friendship increases joy, and diffuses sorrow.
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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.
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01:35Reading mocketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
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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.
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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.
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02:20The greatest sin is to be sensible and still commit the act.
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02:29Fame is a reward of virtue, but it is sometimes the reward of vice.
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02:39Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
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02:46The cure for the love of praise is to despise fame.
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02:54It is a strange thing that in all history we do not find more mention of physicians than of physicians'
03:00cures.
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03:05An open enemy I fear not, a disguised enemy I fear.
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03:15Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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03:20Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
03:20The cure for the love of history I fear.
03:20I fear.
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