Francis Bacon
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English philosopher, lawyer and statesman (1561 to 1626); lord chancellor from 1618 to 1621; author of the Essays and the Novum organum.
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28 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Seeking, knowing and believing truth is the highest good of human nature (opens korrents.com)
“But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments, and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of…”
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice that the law ought to weed out (opens korrents.com)
“REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
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A person with a spouse and children has given hostages to fortune, since they hinder great enterprises (opens korrents.com)
“HE THAT hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.”
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Seeking, knowing and believing truth is the highest good of human nature (opens korrents.com)