Francis Bacon Quotes
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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
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Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.
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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?
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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
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By indignities men come to dignities.
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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.
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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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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.
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
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Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.
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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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States are great engines moving slowly.