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• There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic.
  A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health....
• It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are
  but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man....
• Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them
  and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time....
• The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
  -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English economist, philosophe...
• Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. -- Francis Baco
• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
  -- Francis Baco...
• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is no
  a sense of humor to console him for what he is. -- Francis Baco...
• Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. -- Francis Baco