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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- Francis Bacon
#Choose
#Habit
#Life
#Useful
#Will
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
- Francis Bacon
#Anger
#Children
#Old
#Weakness
#Women
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
- Francis Bacon
#Fortune
#Happy
#Nobody
#Person
#Which
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
- Francis Bacon
#Hard
#Moral
#Politician
#Thing
#True
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
- Francis Bacon
#Men
#Much
#Others
#Ought
#Write
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
- Francis Bacon
#Believe
#Frame
#Legend
#Mind
#Universal
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
- Francis Bacon
#Hate
#Loving
#Neighbors
#Our
#Ourselves
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
- Francis Bacon
#Hath
#He
#His
#Knowledge
#Words
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
- Francis Bacon
#Discovered
#Genius
#Nation
#Spirit
#Wit
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.
- Francis Bacon
#Fame
#Fire
#Good
#Like
#Will
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
- Francis Bacon
#Busy
#Character
#Man
#Mind
#Virtues
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
- Francis Bacon
#Ghost
#Holy
#Job
#More
#Pencil
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
- Francis Bacon
#About
#Life
#Much
#Way
#Ways
No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
- Francis Bacon
#Body
#Exercise
#Kingdom
#True
#War
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
- Francis Bacon
#Blind
#Fortune
#Look
#Man
#See
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
- Francis Bacon
#About
#Belief
#Reason
#Religion
#Unknown
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
- Francis Bacon
#Hidden
#Nature
#Overcome
#Sometimes
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
- Francis Bacon
#Hard
#Judges
#Laws
#Torture
#Worse
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
- Francis Bacon
#Devil
#Fool
#Neighbors
#People
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
- Francis Bacon
#Care
#Justice
#Next
#Religion
#Your
It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
- Francis Bacon
#Either
#Love Is
#Love
#Secret
#True
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
- Francis Bacon
#Lies
#Opinion
#Substance
#Sufficient
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- Francis Bacon
#He
#Man
#Opposition
#Out
#Strength
#Use
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
- Francis Bacon
#Hard
#Needs
#Sometimes
#Tell
#Truth
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
- Francis Bacon
#Good
#Hand
#Mistress
#Poor
#Riches
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.
- Francis Bacon
#Between
#Difference
#Friend
#Man
#Self
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
- Francis Bacon
#Know
#Little
#Man
#More
#Nothing
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
- Francis Bacon
#Act
#Learning
#Opinions
#People
#Speak
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
- Francis Bacon
#Evils
#Expect
#Must
#New
#Will
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.
- Francis Bacon
#Business
#Execution
#New
#People
#Young
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
- Francis Bacon
#Experience
#Nature
#Perfect
#Still
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
- Francis Bacon
#Best
#Like
#Rich
#Stone
#Virtue
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
- Francis Bacon
#Age
#Happy
#Life
#Miserable
#Moment
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
- Francis Bacon
#Friends
#Friendship
#Seldom
#Them
#Visiting
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
- Francis Bacon
#Memory
#Objects
#Only
#Please
#Shapes
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
- Francis Bacon
#Light
#Men
#Sky
#Stars
#Together
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
- Francis Bacon
#Leave
#Memory
#Men
#Name
#Next
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.
- Francis Bacon
#Best
#Good
#Health
#Man
#Wisdom
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
- Francis Bacon
#Cunning
#Hurt
#Men
#Nothing
#Wise
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
- Francis Bacon
#Nothing
#Pleasant
#Variety
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
- Francis Bacon
#Bold
#Man
#Open
#Surprise
#Unexpected
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
- Francis Bacon
#Find
#Make
#Man
#Must
#Opportunity
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
- Francis Bacon
#Green
#Man
#Revenge
#Well
#Wounds
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
- Francis Bacon
#Desire
#Fall
#Knowledge
#Men
#Power
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
- Francis Bacon
#History
#Shipwreck
#Some
#Time
#Which
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
- Francis Bacon
#Friends
#Great
#Loss
#Man
#Never
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.
- Francis Bacon
#Difference
#Fool
#Happiness
#Man
#Wisdom
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
- Francis Bacon
#Come
#Down
#Moment
#Thoughts
#Valuable
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
- Francis Bacon
#Belly
#Worst
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
- Francis Bacon
#Human Power
#Human
#Knowledge
#Power
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.
- Francis Bacon
#Always
#Dog
#Good
#Truth
#Your
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
- Francis Bacon
#Creatures
#First
#Living
#Time
#Which
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
- Francis Bacon
#Fears
#Grieves
#Joys
#Parents
#Secret
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
#Prudent
#Question
#Wisdom
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
- Francis Bacon
#Citizen
#He
#Man
#Strangers
#World
It is natural to die as to be born.
- Francis Bacon
#Born
#Die
#Natural
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
- Francis Bacon
#Fame
#Light
#River
#Things
#Up
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
- Francis Bacon
#God
#Know
#Life
#Man
#Men
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
- Francis Bacon
#Friendships
#Real
#Solitude
#Worst
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
- Francis Bacon
#Believe
#Dead
#Death
#Man
#Only
Science is but an image of the truth.
- Francis Bacon
#Image
#Science
#Truth
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.
- Francis Bacon
#Integrity
#Judges
#More
#Things
#Virtue
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
- Francis Bacon
#Find
#Men
#Wisdom
#Wise Men
#Wise
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
- Francis Bacon
#Fall
#Fortune
#Price
#Stay
#Will
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
- Francis Bacon
#Art
#Fashion
#Living
#Realize
#Social
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
- Francis Bacon
#Hallowed
#Justice
#Place
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
- Francis Bacon
#Ever
#Patience
#Possession
#Soul
#Who
By indignities men come to dignities.
- Francis Bacon
#Come
#Men
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
- Francis Bacon
#Best
#Greatest
#Men
#Merit
#Unmarried
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
- Francis Bacon
#Exercise
#God
#Intelligence
#Limits
#Us
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- Francis Bacon
#Art
#Evil
#Good
#Life
#Soul
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
- Francis Bacon
#God
#Greatest
#Smallest
#Weights
#Wires
The worst men often give the best advice.
- Francis Bacon
#Advice
#Best
#Give
#Men
#Worst
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- Francis Bacon
#Anger
#Dull
#Men
#Poor
#Witty
God's first creature, which was light.
- Francis Bacon
#Creature
#First
#God
#Light
#Which
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
- Francis Bacon
#Atheism
#Back
#God
#Lead
#Us
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Francis Bacon
#Action
#End
#Great
#Knowledge
#Life
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Francis Bacon
#Books
#Few
#Others
#Some
#Tasted
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
- Francis Bacon
#Like
#Little
#Money
#Spread
#Use
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
- Francis Bacon
#Change
#Greatest
#New
#Time
#Will
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Francis Bacon
#Imagination
#Land
#Nothing
#Sea
#See
Friends are thieves of time.
- Francis Bacon
#Friends
#Thieves
#Time
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
- Francis Bacon
#Bitter
#Children
#Labours
#Make
#More
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
- Francis Bacon
#Believe
#Read
#Take For Granted
#Take
Silence is the virtue of fools.
- Francis Bacon
#Fools
#Silence
#Virtue
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
- Francis Bacon
#Good Things
#Good
#Loss
#Mind
#Rest
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
- Francis Bacon
#Confusion
#Error
#More
#Than
#Truth
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
- Francis Bacon
#Learn
#Much
#Questions
#Shall
#Who
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
- Francis Bacon
#Adversity
#Fear
#Prosperity
#Without
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
- Francis Bacon
#Men
#Observe
#Root
#Superstition
#Thing
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.
- Francis Bacon
#Desire
#Liberty
#Lose
#Man
#Power
#Self
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
- Francis Bacon
#Adversity
#Blessing
#New
#Prosperity
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
- Francis Bacon
#Born
#Die
#Little
#Natural
#Other
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
- Francis Bacon
#Before
#Live
#Look
#Uniformity
#Use
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
- Francis Bacon
#Good
#Order
#Speak
#Speech
#Words
Acorns were good until bread was found.
- Francis Bacon
#Bread
#Found
#Good
#Until
#Were
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
- Francis Bacon
#Always
#Art
#Artist
#Job
#Mystery
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
- Francis Bacon
#Justice
#Maintain
#Us
#Will
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
- Francis Bacon
#Alter
#Better
#Change
#Things
#Worse
Opportunity makes a thief.
- Francis Bacon
#Makes
#Opportunity
#Thief
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