Quote #91
In charity there is no excess.
More from Francis Bacon
- A good name is like a precious ointment; it filleth all around about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable…
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- Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences.
- The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
- There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
- Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
- It is an assured sign of a worthy and generous spirit, whom honor amends. For honor is, or should be, the place of virtue and as in nature,…
- I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.