Sir Francis Bacon

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"Men in Great Place are thrice Servants: Servants of the Sovereign or State; Servants of Fame; and Servants of Business … It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty."	Ambition, Desires, Excellence
"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other."	Death
"The world's a bubble; and the life of man Less than a span."	Life, Men
"Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them."	Lies
"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."	Ability, Choice, Habits
"There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals."	Equality, Friends
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."	Knowledge, Men, Opportunity
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."	Government, Life, Men
"Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"Silence is the virtue of fools."	Virtue
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."	Men, Reading, Writing
"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies."	Fear, Honesty, Lies
"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."	Birth, Death, Military
"Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind."	Law, Men
"Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical."	Art, Learning, Men
"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."	Change, Excellence, Men
"Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation."	Miscellaneous
"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."	Anger, Men
"We cannot command nature except by obeying her."	Men, Nature
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Anger	Argument	Art
Birth	Books	Change
Choice	Conflict	Criticism
Darkness	Death	Desires
Doubt	Equality	Evil
Excellence	Fear	Forgiveness
Freedom	Friends	Good
Government	Habits	History
Honesty	Hope	Humor
Imagination	Intelligence	Intentions
Knowledge	Law	Learning
Liberty	Lies	Life
Light	Love	Memory
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Monarchy	Money	Nature
Opportunity	Patience	Poetry
Power	Reading	Religion
Sin	Time	Truth
Virtue	Wants	War
Wisdom	Wishing	Writing