Francis Bacon Quotes
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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.
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God loveth the clean.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
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Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret.
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You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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Reading maketh a full man.
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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.