Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:
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Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays
“There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.”
Source: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author
Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays
“Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.”
Source: Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor
“The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.”
“If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.”
Source: The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author
“Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.”
Source: Essays
“In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon
“It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.”
“He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.”
Source: Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor
“Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works
“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
Source: The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High-Chancellor of England: Methodized, and Made English from the Originals, with Occasional Notes, To Explain what is Obscure; and Show how Far the Several PLANS of the AUTHOR, for the Advancement of All the Parts of Knowledge, Have Been Executed to the Present Time
“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
Source: The Essays of Lord Bacon
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
“Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.”
“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
“Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.”
“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author
“Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.”
“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.”
“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”