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Famous Francis Bacon Quotes
“Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.”
Source: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately
“The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”
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
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon
“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.”
“Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.”
“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.”
“There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.”
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
“Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.”
“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
“Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.”
“Rebellions of the belly are the worst.”
Source: The Essays of Francis Bacon
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
Source: The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author by Basil Montagu
“Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.”
“Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.”
Source: The Major Works
“For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.”
Source: The Beauties of Bacon
“the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.”
Source: Essays
“Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”