Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books." [ Proposition touching Amendment of Laws ]” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Judges ought to remember that their office is to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it… — 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
Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — 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 Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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