Fate Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Die Known Everybody Unknown Fate Known Known Everybody Men Sad Fate Stills Well known Wells
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died. — David Grayson Copy Share Image
I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows. — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Fate and future both are servant to the determined, for they are nothing but creation of human determination.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?” — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image