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Category: Francis Bacon

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

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

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

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

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

By indignities men come to dignities.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

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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