Best Francis Bacon Quotations
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Art
- There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest… Comparison
- Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. Bitter
- Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. Breed
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. Discovered
- When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. Forgive
- Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it… Easily
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the… Atheism
- Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. Care
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. Felt
- Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. Experience
- The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Affliction
- It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. Commonly
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. Displease
- Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. Adversity
- The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. Angel
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. Greater
- There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little. Inspirational
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Carpe Diem
- Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. Advice
- As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. All
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. Age
- Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. Built
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. Any
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. Fierce
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