Quote by Francis Bacon
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon

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Generosity
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. – Francis Bacon

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History
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon

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Death
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Happiness
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To buy happiness is to sell soul. – Douglas Horton

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Happiness

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. – Douglas Horton

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Happiness

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. – James Thomson

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Happiness

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Happiness

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How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that theyre somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made? – Dan Savage

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Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight. – Vladimir Kramnik

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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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