Quotes by Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

English philosopher and statesman

Lived from: 1561 - 1626

Category: Politics | Philosophers Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 1 february 1561 Died: 19 april 1626

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  • For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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  • For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
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  • Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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  • Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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  • Friends are thieves of time.
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  • Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.
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  • God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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  • God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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  • God's first creature, which was light.
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  • Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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  • He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
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  • He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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  • He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
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  • He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
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  • Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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  • Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
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  • Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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  • Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
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  • I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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  • I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
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