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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.


Sir Francis Bacon

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In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
THOMAS FULLER In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
FRANCIS BACON In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
FRANCIS BACON SR. By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.
UNKNOWN Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superi...
FRANCIS BACON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series.
DEYTH BANGER But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death...
FRANCIS BACON A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
CONFUCIUS The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
CONFUCIUS The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
CONFUCIUS It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me tha...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that ...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that...
JAMES M. BARRIE I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that...
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a ho...
MARK RYLANCE Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I love everything. The way she strokes her earlobe when she's thinking. The way she chews her pen wh...
KIKI ARCHER In my view, everything was indeed about her. His romancing me was about her, his conversation about ...
ERICA JONG Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... Through his deferential yet decidedly determined demeanor, Pope Francis is not only setting a superi...
DENISE MORRISON A man need never revenge himself, the body of his enemy will be brought to his own door
CHINESE PROVERBS Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people l...
SIMON RATTLE I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many...
DAVID LYNCH All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON Because you might just get there and turn around and want to leave again. I'm not going to ping-pong...
BUT APRIL I want to make sure it is out of there for good. Whatever it is, there is a shark floating in there ...
BUT BURNETT Something wasn't right. It's pretty frustrating. I feel about two inches tall.
BUT BURNETT Well? I mean, I know fatherhood isn't your strong suit, but I thought maybe you'd evolved a little s...
BUT APRIL Last time I heard, she was still pregnant, and you were still in the running for daddy.
BUT APRIL The full weight of a man is not in just his ideas, but in what he is able to do with it
SUNDAY ADELAJA Petty deviance is encouraged
JKRAK Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
UNKNOWN HISTORY STUDENT It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
DAVID LYNCH He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
SOCRATES Now, anybody whom a German hates, He presently exterminates, But he who exterminates a French Is nev...
OGDEN NASH The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The...
CONFUCIUS Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determine...
GILBERT MURRAY I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why??
It's the truth one road and tha...
DEYTH BANGER A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman’s reputation and spirit, in order to...
SHANNON L. ALDER PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can p...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su...
I CHING The worst enemy in a persons life is not the enemy you know is your enemy,but the enemy that disguis...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) No occupation is considered superior since everyone is doing his best where he is.
SUNDAY ADELAJA The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of ...
A. B. YEHOSHUA Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He ha...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressi...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressi...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can p...
CAO CAO I am but a message in a world full of messengers
NICHOLAS JOHNSON Life is so sweet. A man will even kiss the a** of his enemy to have his head spared
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected w...
MARK RYLANCE In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is...
JACQUES LACAN I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. B...
JACK MCDEVITT Taking revenge from someone may be easier for you, but it is really harder to live afterwards.
VIKRANT PARSAI When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his ow...
LENORE COFFEE When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to...
FULTON J. SHEEN Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...
H. RIDER HAGGARD I like eggs and bacon," George tells me. "But" - his face clouds - "do you know that bacon is" - tea...
HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righte...
FREDERICK SCOTT OLIVER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding i...
JOHN WATERS A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteo...
CONFUCIUS By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si...
JOHN GAY A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si...
JOHN GAY He gave us the gift of love and laughter, ... even in his passing.
BOB DENVER We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as t...
CHIEF SEATTLE A real 'karma-yogi', who first acquires knowledge and then works for the welfare of people, quite na...
SAM VEDA In America profit is everything. They would never suspect honor. Money, greed, even revenge. But nev...
MISHA In his youth, every man is a dreamer. But then he finally gets sleepy.
DIRCEU ALVES FERREIRA He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
EDDIE CANTOR He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him
EDDY CANTOR If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him...
SUN TZU Revenge itself may indeed be the best revenge, but slaying one's enemy does not give back what they ...
EMILIE AUTUMN There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't kno...
CARLISLE FLOYD Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
ST. AUGUSTINE The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by ste...
ANAïS NIN He is morally and intellectually superior to his white masters. They're lazy where he is hardworking...
JUDY CHRISTENSEN The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he c...
ARISTOTLE The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balanc...
GIACOMO CASANOVA The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be...
EUGENE KENNEDY 23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.
JAMES C. DOBSON He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is h...
ARISTOTLE The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments o...
CONFUCIUS Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust ...
GERMANY KENT A man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something that he thinks will make...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL

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FRANCIS BACON Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
FRANCIS BACON It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and...
FRANCIS BACON Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...
FRANCIS BACON For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next age...
FRANCIS BACON A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
FRANCIS BACON Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
FRANCIS BACON Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
FRANCIS BACON I would live to study, and not study to live.
FRANCIS BACON Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than conf...
FRANCIS BACON For knowledge itself is power.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
FRANCIS BACON Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
FRANCIS BACON The place of justice is a hallowed place.
FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...
FRANCIS BACON It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
FRANCIS BACON Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
FRANCIS BACON Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
FRANCIS BACON