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Yannis Stavrou, Still Life, oil on canvas

Facing every day life with wisdom...

Sir Francis Bacon
Aphorisms

• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
• By far the best proof is experience.
• Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
• Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
• Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
• He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
• I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
• In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
• Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
• Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
• Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
• Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
• Silence is the virtue of fools.
• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
• The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
• Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
• Knowledge is power. ((Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)
• In charity there is no excess.
• Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.