It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother. — 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
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
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
In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it… — 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 men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent:… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — 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
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance. — 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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