FRANCIS BACON QUOTES II

English philosopher (1561-1626)

Francis Bacon quote

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

FRANCIS BACON

Apothegms

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.

FRANCIS BACON

Advancement of Learning

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

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Goodness and Goodness in Nature," Essays

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays


Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Truth," Essays

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Do not wonder, if the common people speak more truly than those of high rank; for they speak with more safety.

FRANCIS BACON, Exempla Antithetorum

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Art is man added to Nature.

FRANCIS BACON

Descriptio Globi Intellectus

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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Seditions and Troubles," Essays

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

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Adversity," Essays

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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Studies," Essays

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So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Ambition," Essays

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We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

FRANCIS BACON

Novum Organum

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Ambition is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped. But if it be stopped, and cannot have his way, it becometh adust, and thereby malign and venomous.

SIR FRANCIS BACON

"Of Ambition" Essays

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Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Atheism", Essays

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