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Quote of the day 03/08/25

From Francis Bacon: “Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.”

From Francis Bacon: “Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.”

From Francis Bacon: “They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.”

From Francis Bacon: “Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”

From Francis Bacon: “Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”

From Francis Bacon: “There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

From Francis Bacon: “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

From Francis Bacon’ “It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”

From Francis Bacon: “Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”

From Francis Bacon: “Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”