Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works
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“Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.”
Source: The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay
Source: Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately
“None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.”
“It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.”
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
“It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.”
“It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.”
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
“Always let losers have their words.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon
Source: The Major Works
“Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
“For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
Source: Selected Philosophical Works
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
“All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.”
“Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.”
“If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.”
Source: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays
“Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.”
Source: A harmony of the essays, etc. of Francis Bacon
“We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
“The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.”
Source: The Essays
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon
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
Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition
Source: The Great Instauration
“We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.”
Source: Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately
“There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.”