Francis Bacon Quotes

• Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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• Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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• Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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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.

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• People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

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• 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.

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• Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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• Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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• Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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• Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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• Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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• Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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• Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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• Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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• Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

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• 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.

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• Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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• 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.

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• It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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Francis Bacon (265)

Birth:	22nd January, 1561
Death:	9th April, 1626
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Philosopher, Scientist, Statesman

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Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.

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