Quote #149

Choose the best life; for habit will make it pleasant

More from Francis Bacon

  1. Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
  2. Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
  3. What then remains but that we still should cry Not to be born, or, being born, to die?
  4. Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
  5. The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.
  6. The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
  7. To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down…
  8. Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.

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