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Francis Bacon

Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist

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#  ·  **-- Not So Good (26 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)  · 

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon, in Happiness and Misery

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (8 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Francis Bacon, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (16 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Francis Bacon, in Love and Hate

#  ·  **-- Not So Good (22 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.

Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

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