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.

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• Francis Bacon:

  The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because

• Francis Bacon:

  Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is super

• Francis Bacon:

  No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a ki

• Francis Bacon:

  Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom

• Francis Bacon:

  It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secr

• Francis of Assisi:

  We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

• Francis of Assisi:

  We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to ev

• Francis of Assisi:

  Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day throug

• Francis of Assisi:

  Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them brig

• Francis of Assisi:

  Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautifu