3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon 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.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon 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.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon 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.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
