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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.

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
Happiness, Wisdom, Humility

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Francis Bacon
Inspirational, Happiness, Wealth

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Francis Bacon
Happiness, New Beginnings, Loss
Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon
Happiness, Beauty, Art
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Beauty'

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Francis Bacon
Happiness, Sleep, Exercise
Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1867). “Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately”, p.231

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