202 Quotations by Francis Bacon
- 161. The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asund ...
- 162. The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
- 163. There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.
- 164. There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall ...
- 165. There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of ...
- 166. There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, ...
- 167. There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr ...
- 168. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- 169. There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy ...
- 170. There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion dot ...
- 171. Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet ...
- 172. They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
- 173. They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
- 174. They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
- 175. Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
- 176. This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, ...
- 177. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal ...
- 178. Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
- 179. Time is the author of authors.
- 180. Time is the measure of business.
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