Francis Bacon quotes

Wise men make more opportunities than they find. (Francis Bacon)
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
For knowledge, too, is itself power.
Francis Bacon
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
Francis Bacon
Time is the greatest innovator.
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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Friends are thieves of time.
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There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.
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By far the best proof is experience. (Francis Bacon)
Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. (Francis Bacon)
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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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.
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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.
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