We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought … - Francis Bacon

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Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on your response.

Francis Bacon

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

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Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.

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