49 Quotations by Sir Francis Bacon
- 21. If a man be gracious, and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world
- 22. If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not ...
- 23. If a man will begin in certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in dou ...
- 24. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit ...
- 25. In charity there is no excess.
- 26. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
- 27. Knowledge is power.
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- 28. Knowledge is power.
- 29. Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
- 30. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased ...
- 31. Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
- 32. No man is angry that feels not himself hurt.
- 33. Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
- 34. Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.
- 35. Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou ...
- 36. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
- 37. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it ...
- 38. Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not ...
- 39. Silence is the virtue of fools.
- 40. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is ...
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