202 Quotations by Francis Bacon
- 121. Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
- 122. Prosperity doth best discover vice but adversity doth best discover virtue.
- 123. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
- 124. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
- 125. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou ...
- 126. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
- 127. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed ...
- 128. Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
- 129. Riches are for spending.
- 130. Science is but an image of the truth.
- 131. Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- 132. Silence is the virtue of fools.
- 133. Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
- 134. Small matters win great commendation.
- 135. Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.
- 136. Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
- 137. Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
- 138. Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
- 139. Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
- 140. Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially n ...
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