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• Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. -- Francis Baco
• It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Cunning...
• It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
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• Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• When is the best time for a man to marry?) A young man not yet, an older man not at all.
  Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste
  and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Great hypocrites are the true atheists. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)