Francis Bacon

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Biography : English philosopher and statesman.
Born: 1561 - Died: 1626
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Francis Bacon - Quotes

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
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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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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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life

The worst men often give the best advice.
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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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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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
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By indignities men come to dignities.
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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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happiness

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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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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beauty

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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truth

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
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