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• Silence is the virtue of fools. -- Francis Baco
• Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of gia
  o that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness on sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size....
• Knowledge is power.--Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Meditationes Sacrae, De Haeresibu...
• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Knowledge is power. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626), _De Sapientia Veterum._ (1609)
• Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• Virtue is like a rich stone,--best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Beauty
• Virtue is like precious odours,--most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• In charity there is no excess. -- Francis Baco