As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.


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Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit...
FRANCIS PICABIA
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, a...
FRANCIS QUARLES
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b...
FRANCIS BACON
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
FRANCIS BACON
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
FRANCIS BACON
All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from...
FRANCIS BACON
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ...
FRANCIS BACON
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy...
FRANCIS BACON
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
FRANCIS BACON
Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil...
FRANCIS BACON
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma...
FRANCIS LOCKIER
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ...
CLARENCE FRANCIS
Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de...
FRANCIS BACON
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv...
FRANCIS BACON
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS
The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
FRANCIS QUARLES
If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
FRANCIS BACON
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the...
FRANCIS BACON
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
FRANCIS PICABIA
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
FRANCIS QUARLES