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Wise Quotes by Francis Bacon
- Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- It is impossible to love and to be wise.
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
- There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest…
- Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
- One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the…
- Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
- Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
- It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding that it can hold men's hearts by hopes when it cannot by satisfaction.
- You cannot love and be wise.
- It is impossible to love and be wise.
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