Virtue Quotes by Francis Bacon

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

— Francis Bacon

Silence is the virtue of fools.

— Francis Bacon

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

— Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

— Francis Bacon

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

— Francis Bacon

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

— Francis Bacon

“The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.”

— Francis Bacon

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is…

— Francis Bacon

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the…

— Francis Bacon

“Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth…

— Francis Bacon

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or…

— Francis Bacon

“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or…

— Francis Bacon

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity…

— Francis Bacon

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is…

— Francis Bacon

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an…

— Francis Bacon

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of…

— Francis Bacon

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent:…

— Francis Bacon

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or…

— Francis Bacon

Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch…

— Francis Bacon

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

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an…

— Francis Bacon