Best Francis Bacon Proverbs
- For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. Book
- A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. Age
- Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon… All
- The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them. Inspirational
- Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed. Commanded
- By far the best proof is experience. Belief
- If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted Accomplished
- The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. Monument
- The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. Greatness
- The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room. Happens
- Money is a great servant but a bad master. Bad
- Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils,… Acquire
- For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. Company
- We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. Enemies
- The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there… Angel
- There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. All
- The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with… Discolors
- Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. Armor
- Wise men make more opportunities than they find. Find
- The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. Art
- Friends are thieves of time. Friends
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Art
- A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it. Find
- Opportunity makes a thief. Opportunity
- Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. Antiquities
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