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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  • I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
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  • I have rather studied books than men.
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  • I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
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  • I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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  • I would live to study, and not study to live.
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  • If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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  • If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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  • If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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  • If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
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  • Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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  • Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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  • In charity there is no excess.
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  • In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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  • In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
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  • In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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  • In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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  • In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
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  • It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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  • It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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  • It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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