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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much (Francis Bacon Quotes)
People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Studies teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Physic is of little use to a temperate person, for a man’s own observation on what he finds does him good, and what hurts him is the best physic to preserve health (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Logic differeth from rhetoric as the fist from the palm; the one close, the other at large (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Certainly, if a man will but keep of an even hand, his ordinary expenses ought to be but to the half of his receipts; and if he thinks to wax rich, but to the third part (Francis Bacon Quotes)
It had been hard to have put more truth and untruth together in a few words than in that speech, whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a God (Francis Bacon Quotes)
If a man can play the true logician, and have judgment as well as invention, he may do great matters (Francis Bacon Quotes)
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Books are true friends that will never flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself, and you shall need no other comfort (Francis Bacon Quotes)
There is nothing that makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and, therefore, men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions to smother (Francis Bacon Quotes)
He that travels into a country before he has some entrance into the language, goeth to school and not to travel (Francis Bacon Quotes)
An angry man who suppresses his passions thinks worse than he speaks; and an angry man that will chide speaks worse than he thinks (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Great effects come of industry and perseverance: for audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible enjoy generally a greater share of dignity than of happiness (Francis Bacon Quotes)
We see spiders, flies or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Men believe that their reason governs their words; but it often happens the words have power to react on reason (Francis Bacon Quotes)
I will say positively and resolutely that is it impossible an elective monarchy should be so free and absolute as an hereditary (Francis Bacon Quotes)
A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so often over and over again (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed (Francis Bacon Quotes)
There is no way but to meditate and ruminate well upon the effects of anger, how it troubles man’s life; and the best time to do this is to look back upon anger when the fit is thoroughly over (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The great atheists are, indeed, the hypocrites, which are ever handling holy things, but without feeling; so as must need be cauterized in the end (Francis Bacon Quotes)
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast (Francis Bacon Quotes)
A man’s own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Merit and good works is the end of man’s motion, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man’s rest (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Neither the naked hand nor the understanding, left to itself, can do much; the work is accomplished by instruments and helps, of which the need is not less for the understanding than the hand (Francis Bacon Quotes)
All authority must be out of a man’s self, turned... Either upon an art, or upon a man (Francis Bacon Quotes)