In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life... — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Nupital love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“ Aristippus said: That those that studied particular sciences, and neglected philosophy, were like Penelope's wooers, that made love to the waiting women. ” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
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