Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the … - Francis Bacon

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The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

Francis Bacon

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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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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