Francis Bacon Quotes
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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For knowledge, too, is itself power.
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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.
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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
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And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.
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Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.
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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.
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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
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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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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.