"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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Man, Men, Time, Reputation

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

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"The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other."

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"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."

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"Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it. There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's observation, what he finds good and of what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health."

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"Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth."

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"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."

Explore more quotes by Francis Bacon

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other."

"A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time."

"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man."

"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."

"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."

"Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it. There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's observation, what he finds good and of what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health."

"Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth."

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."