Francis Bacon Quote: Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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Age will not be defied.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.