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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."
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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
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Explore more quotes by Francis Bacon
"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
Truth
"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."
Knowledge
"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
Justice
"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
Man
"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
Lie
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
Humor
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
Happiness
"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."
Experience
"The worst men often give the best advice."
Man
"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."
Time
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