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The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
Francis Bacon -
In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, 'The world says,' or 'There is a speech abroad.'
Francis Bacon
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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)
Francis Bacon -
It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.
Francis Bacon -
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Francis Bacon -
Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.
Francis Bacon -
The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
Francis Bacon -
Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
Francis Bacon
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There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
Francis Bacon -
Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.
Francis Bacon -
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
Francis Bacon -
Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
Francis Bacon -
Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
Francis Bacon -
You shall have atheists strive to get disciples, as it fareth with other sects. And, which is most of all, you shall have of them, that will suffer for atheism, and not recant; whereas if they did truly think, that there were no such thing as God, why should they trouble themselves?
Francis Bacon
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
Francis Bacon -
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
Francis Bacon -
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Francis Bacon -
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
Francis Bacon -
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
Francis Bacon -
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon