For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit,… — 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
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed… — 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
There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. — 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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