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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Francis Bacon
Loss, Funny Friend, Men

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

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

Francis Bacon
Wisdom, Loss, Hands
Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.61, Modern Library

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