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• Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemie
  but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends....
• Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 64...
• Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,--old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 97...
• A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day
  but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made....
• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel
  and fitter for new projects than for settled business....
• Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Ye
  but if we have such another victory, we are undone....
• We cannot command nature except by obeying her. -- Sir Francis Baco
• Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 247...
• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel
  and fitter for new projects than for settled business....