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Francis Bacon

British statesman and philosopher

Nationality: British

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Type: Philosopher

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Birth: 1561-1626

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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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Age will not be defied.

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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In charity there is no excess.

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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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A good conscience is a continual feast.

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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Riches are for spending.

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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

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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.

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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Knowledge is power.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

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Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.

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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.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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

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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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All colors will agree in the dark.

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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

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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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