“Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.”
Source: The Major Works
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“More dangers have deceived men than forced them.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
“The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.”
“Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.”
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
“The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.”
Source: Essays
Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays
Source: Essays or Counsels civil and moral
“Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.”
Source: Essays
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: Essays
“God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.”
Source: Bacon's Essays
Source: The Essays of Lord Bacon
“Nothing is to be feared but fear.”
Source: A Conference of Pleasure
“The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.”
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
“Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.”
“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest”
“As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.”
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
“No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.”
Source: The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces
“A good conscience is a continual feast.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England
“Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.”
Source: Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
“The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.”
“All bravery stands upon comparisons.”
Source: The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, with a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil ... Revised from the Early Copies, with the References Now First Supplied, and a Few Notes, by Thomas Markby
“The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.”
Source: The Advancement of Learning
Source: Essays
Source: Literary and Professional Works
“They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.”
“The folly of one man is the fortune of another.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon
“There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.”
Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition
“The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.”
“A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.”
Source: The Beauties of Bacon
“The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.”
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
“In charity there is no excess.”
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