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• Silentium, stultorum virtus. [Silence is the virtue of fools.
  ] -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum (1623) bk....
• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• Virtue is like a rich stone,--best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Beauty
• Virtue is like precious odours,--most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• In charity there is no excess. -- Francis Baco
• Knowledge is power. -- Francis Baco
• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune
  for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief....
• Libraries are the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...