202 Quotations by Francis Bacon
- 61. If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts. But if we begin with doubts, and are patient i ...
- 62. Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
- 63. Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
- 64. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him f ...
- 65. In charity there is no excess.
- 66. In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ...
- 67. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
- 68. In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi ...
- 69. It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
- 70. It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in ...
- 71. It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow ...
- 72. It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
- 73. It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the ...
- 74. It is impossible to love and be wise.
- 75. It is natural to die as to be born.
- 76. It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it tha ...
- 77. It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and ...
- 78. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringe ...
- 79. It was prettily devised of Aesop, "The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ...
- 80. It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that ...
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