Francis Bacon quotes - page 4

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. (Francis Bacon)
In charity there is no excess. View quote
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth. View quote
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What then remains, but that we still should cry, Not to be born, or being born, to die. View quote
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. View quote
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. View quote
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In peace the sons bury their fathers and in war the fathers bury their sons. View quote
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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. View quote
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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, Yes but if we have such another victory, we are undone. View quote
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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. View quote
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. (Francis Bacon)
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. View quote
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There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him. View quote
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States, as great engines, move slowly. View quote
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. View quote
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Money is like muck, not good unless spread. View quote
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. View quote
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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good. View quote
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Great changes are easier than small ones. View quote
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Cure the disease and kill the patient. View quote
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Opportunity makes a thief. (Francis Bacon)
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things. View quote
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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green. View quote
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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one. View quote
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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. View quote
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