202 Quotations by Francis Bacon
- 21. Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.
- 22. Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ...
- 23. Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council thoug ...
- 24. But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be l ...
- 25. By indignities men come to dignities.
- 26. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, o ...
- 27. Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
- 28. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
- 29. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- 30. Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
- 31. Cure the disease and kill the patient.
- 32. Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de ...
- 33. Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more ...
- 34. Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
- 35. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, ...
- 36. For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly a ...
- 37. For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next age ...
- 38. Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
- 39. God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
- 40. God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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