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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  • That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
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  • The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
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  • The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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  • The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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  • The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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  • The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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  • The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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  • The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
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  • The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
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  • The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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  • The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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  • The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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  • The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
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  • The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
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  • The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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  • The worst men often give the best advice.
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  • The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
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  • There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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  • There is a superstition is avoiding superstition.
    Of superstition
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  • There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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