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Francis Bacon

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    If we do not render respect to superiors, can we expect inferiors to tender respect to us?
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
    assuredly the secret man heareth many confessions
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
    but what is true of the details (and many of them) is true of the design
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
    When the world was young it begat more children, but now it is old, it begets fewer
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
    The lowest virtues draw praise from them; the middle virtues work in them astonishment or admiration; but of the highest virtues they have no sense or perceiving at all.
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
    Nomen bonum instar unguenti fragrantis
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
    impudent flatterer, look wherein a man is conscious to himself that he is most defective and is most out of countenance in himself,6 that will the flatterer entitle him to perforce
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
    pessimum genus inimicorum laudantium
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
    Ulysses, Vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted8 months ago
    Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested
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