The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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• Francis Bacon:

  There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is real

• Francis Bacon:

  Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fi

• Francis Bacon:

  Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

• Francis Bacon:

  Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

• Francis Bacon:

  Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him

• Francis Bacon:

  A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

• Francis Bacon:

  Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

• Francis Bacon:

  Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

• Francis Bacon:

  Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

• Francis Bacon:

  Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.