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• Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Empire...
• The desire of power in excess caused angels to fall
  he desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall...
• Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 54...
• Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Fortune...
• The ways to enrich are many, and most of them foul.--Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• This is the story of the bee Whose sex is very hard to see You cannot tell the he from the she But she can tell
  and so can he The little bee is never still She has no time to take the pill And that is why, in times like these There are so many sons of bees....
• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)