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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

English Philosopher

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons - Francis Bacon Quotes

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands - Francis Bacon Quotes

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time - Francis Bacon Quotes

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time

Books And Reading

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study - Francis Bacon Quotes

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Ability English Philosopher

There is superstition in avoiding superstitions - Francis Bacon Quotes

There is superstition in avoiding superstitions

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon Quotes

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Beauty English Philosopher

In charity there is no excess. - Francis Bacon Quotes

In charity there is no excess.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall. - Francis Bacon Quotes

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

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. - Francis Bacon Quotes

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.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Advise English Philosopher

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior - Francis Bacon Quotes

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior

Man

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. - Francis Bacon Quotes

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

English Philosopher Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had - Francis Bacon Quotes

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity. - Francis Bacon Quotes

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid - Francis Bacon Quotes

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Education English Philosopher

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. - Francis Bacon Quotes

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

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. - Francis Bacon Quotes

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.

Advice English Philosopher

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

History And Historians Logic

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise - Francis Bacon Quotes

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise

Fools And Foolishness

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

English Philosopher

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. - Francis Bacon Quotes

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

English Philosopher Man

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. - Francis Bacon Quotes

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

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. - Francis Bacon Quotes

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.

Medicine Poetry And Poets

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Age And Aging Elderly

Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Cure the disease and kill the patient. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Authority Power

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority - Francis Bacon Quotes

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution - Francis Bacon Quotes

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution

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?. - Francis Bacon Quotes

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?.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

English Philosopher

Who then to frail mortality shall trust but limns on water, or but writes in dust - Francis Bacon Quotes

Who then to frail mortality shall trust but limns on water, or but writes in dust

Who then to frail mortality shall trust,/ But limns the water, or but writes in dust. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Who then to frail mortality shall trust,/ But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Friends Or Friendship

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Art English Philosopher

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. - Francis Bacon Quotes

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Man

People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business. - Francis Bacon Quotes

People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Business Servants

Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.

Bats

States as great engines move slowly. - Francis Bacon Quotes

States as great engines move slowly.

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter - Francis Bacon Quotes

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason - Francis Bacon Quotes

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

Certainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. - Francis Bacon Quotes

Certainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

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