For the unlearned man knows not what it is to descend into himself, or to call himself to account, nor the pleasure of that suavissima vita, indies sentire se fieri meliorem.
Francis Bacon
Related To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfac... JOHANN VON GOETHE But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of
his own writings before his death... FRANCIS BACON To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be... EUGENE KENNEDY The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last ... WILLIAM HAZLITT The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last... WILLIAM HAZLITT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Measure For Measure WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a ho... MARK RYLANCE Each time a man looks into your eyes, he is only searching to find himself; for he knows already, th... JEREMY ALDANA The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own... JOHN GOWER I think he made the right decision. The situation has changed. He knows this himself. We have to tak... GILLES DUCEPPE Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself t... BLAISE PASCAL The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it GERARD GROOTE That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the mir... ERICH FROMM Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that ... CLIVE OWEN Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. AMBROSE BIERCE Abstainer - a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. AMBROSE GWINETT BIERCE What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for tre... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs n... LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the<... ERICH FROMM The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will ROBIN HOBB Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT He who has surrendered himself to it knows that the Way ends on the Cross -- even when it is leading... DAG HAMMARSKJOLD The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiratio... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiratio... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself... JOHANN MOST A man may blaspheme against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but the sin against the Spirit of Truth ... ALEXANDER MILLER I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to f... EMILY BRONTë All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either
upon an art, or upon a man.
- ... FRANCIS BACON The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a cowar... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last ... WILLIAM HAZLITT I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not... THOMAS PAINE It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not... THOMAS PAINE Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the ze... ELBERT HUBBARD ...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even ... SøREN KIERKEGAARD The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than o... CRISS JAMI I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ... EMILY BRONTE I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ... EMILY BRONTë Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l... THOMAS AQUINAS He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very prof... CHARLES CALEB COLTON The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. TOM STOPPARD Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. JOYCE RACHELLE Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dare... IDA B. WELLS The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD Unlike all other forms of lute or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing; neit... ERNEST HEMINGWAY It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to ... MARQUIS DE SADE
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. FRANCIS BACON If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. FRANCIS BACON There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr... FRANCIS BACON Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity... FRANCIS BACON In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. FRANCIS BACON Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv... FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him... FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d... FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider... FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. FRANCIS BACON Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit... FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions. FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion dot... FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth. FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co... FRANCIS BACON A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ... FRANCIS BACON A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed. FRANCIS BACON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far... FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught,... FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her. FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the... FRANCIS BACON Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for... FRANCIS BACON Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress. FRANCIS BACON For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.] FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up. FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of
the cause frustrates the effect. FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itsel... FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. FRANCIS BACON So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
[Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg... FRANCIS BACON States are great engines moving slowly. FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body;... FRANCIS BACON Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli... FRANCIS BACON The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused m... FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit... FRANCIS BACON Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;... FRANCIS BACON Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. FRANCIS BACON If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ... FRANCIS BACON No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being. FRANCIS BACON Money makes a good servant, but a bad master. FRANCIS BACON Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. FRANCIS BACON Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must... 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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 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 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 Silence is the virtue of fools. FRANCIS BACON Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ... FRANCIS BACON People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and ... FRANCIS BACON Science is but an image of the truth. FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and co... FRANCIS BACON Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. FRANCIS BACON Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. FRANCIS BACON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. FRANCIS BACON Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed... FRANCIS BACON The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou... FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou... FRANCIS BACON I hold every man a debtor to his profession. FRANCIS BACON He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ... FRANCIS BACON Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. FRANCIS BACON All colors will agree in the dark. FRANCIS BACON Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far... FRANCIS BACON It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow... FRANCIS BACON It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. 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FRANCIS BACON Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. FRANCIS BACON Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. FRANCIS BACON Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. FRANCIS BACON What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. FRANCIS BACON It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in... FRANCIS BACON Truth is a naked and open daylight FRANCIS BACON Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit... FRANCIS BACON There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall... FRANCIS BACON Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, o... FRANCIS BACON If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. FRANCIS BACON Riches are for spending. 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FRANCIS BACON In charity there is no excess. FRANCIS BACON That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactl... FRANCIS BACON If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient i... FRANCIS BACON Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council thoug... FRANCIS BACON The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the ... FRANCIS BACON Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images... FRANCIS BACON In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ... FRANCIS BACON Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. FRANCIS BACON Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. FRANCIS BACON The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. FRANCIS BACON There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. FRANCIS BACON Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. FRANCIS BACON Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man. FRANCIS BACON It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringe... FRANCIS BACON I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this u... FRANCIS BACON Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which... FRANCIS BACON Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor. FRANCIS BACON He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with b... FRANCIS BACON There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself,... FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. FRANCIS BACON They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. FRANCIS BACON Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. FRANCIS BACON People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingraine... FRANCIS BACON God's first creature, which was light. FRANCIS BACON Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. FRANCIS BACON Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. FRANCIS BACON The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. FRANCIS BACON A good conscience is a continual feast. FRANCIS BACON The wisdom of our ancestors. FRANCIS BACON Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. FRANCIS BACON Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed op... FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed and digested. FRANCIS BACON Boldness is a child of ignorance. FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;
Adversity is the blessing of the New. FRANCIS BACON All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either
upon an art, or upon a man.
- ... FRANCIS BACON The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the w... FRANCIS BACON