202 Quotations by Francis Bacon
- 181. To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b ...
- 182. To choose time is to save time.
- 183. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
- 184. Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
- 185. Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
- 186. Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
- 187. Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get y ...
- 188. Truth is a naked and open daylight… Truth which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the enquiry of ...
- 189. Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
- 190. We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
- 191. What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
- 192. When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of thei ...
- 193. When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether ...
- 194. Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
- 195. Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
- 196. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
- 197. With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half ...
- 198. Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend ...
- 199. Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
- 200. Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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