Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
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"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
Francis Bacon
"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave."
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."
Francis Bacon
"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
Francis Bacon
"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."
Francis Bacon
"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
Francis Bacon
"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."
Francis Bacon
"Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use."
Francis Bacon
"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."
Francis Bacon
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
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."
Francis Bacon
"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."
Francis Bacon
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
Francis Bacon
"It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself."
Francis Bacon
"The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue."
Francis Bacon
"The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before."
Francis Bacon
"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon
"I would live to study not study to live."
Francis Bacon
"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man."
Francis Bacon
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator."
Francis Bacon
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