Francis Bacon Quotes
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Intermingle...jest with earnest.
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For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.
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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.
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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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Beware of sudden change, in any great point of diet, and, if necessity inforce it, fit the rest to it. For it is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things, than one.
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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.
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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.
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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
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Deformed persons are commonly even with nature; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection; and so they have their revenge of nature.
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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.
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Ne mireris, si vulgus verius loquatur quam honoratiores; quia etiam tutius loquitur.
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The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.
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Nothing is to be feared but fear.
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It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, 'It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.'
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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.