202 Quotations by Francis Bacon
- 141. That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express.
- 142. That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactl ...
- 143. The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
- 144. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
- 145. The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
- 146. The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
- 147. The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and un envied.
- 148. The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
- 149. The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
- 150. The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
- 151. The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one... the more active ...
- 152. The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
- 153. The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicit ...
- 154. The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honore ...
- 155. The place of justice is a hallowed place.
- 156. The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the ...
- 157. The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
- 158. The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
- 159. The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroic virtue.
- 160. The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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