FRANCIS BACON QUOTES V

English philosopher (1561-1626)


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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

FRANCIS BACON
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Essays


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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

FRANCIS BACON

Novum Organum


Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Atheism", Essays

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They that desire to excel in too many matters, out of levity and vain glory, are ever envious. For they cannot want work; it being impossible, but many, in some one of those things, should surpass them. Which was the character of Adrian the Emperor; that mortally envied poets, and painters, and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Envy", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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No people overcharged with tribute, is fit for empire.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of the True Greatness Of Kingdoms And Estates", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral


For justs, and tourneys, and barriers; the glories of them are chiefly in the chariots, wherein the challengers make their entry; especially if they be drawn with strange beasts: as lions, bears, camels, and the like; or in the devices of their entrance; or in the bravery of their liveries; or in the goodly furniture of their horses and armor. But enough of these toys.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Masques And Triumphs", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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The following by certain estates of men, answerable to that, which a great person himself professeth (as of soldiers, to him that hath been employed in the wars, and the like), hath ever been a thing civil, and well taken, even in monarchies; so it be without too much pomp or popularity. But the most honorable kind of following, is to be followed as one, that apprehendeth to advance virtue, and desert, in all sorts of persons.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Followers And Friends", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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The voice of Nature will consent, whether the voice of man do or no.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

FRANCIS BACON

Apothegms

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.

FRANCIS BACON

Advancement of Learning

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

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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States as great engines move slowly.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning


Art is man added to Nature.

FRANCIS BACON

Descriptio Globi Intellectus

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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Youth and Age", Essays; or Counsels Civil and Moral

Tags: action


The real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new commodities.

FRANCIS BACON

Novum Organum

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