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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
— Francis Bacon
The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.
— Francis Bacon
A Man must make his opportunity,as oft as find it
— Francis Bacon
It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt.
— Francis Bacon
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
— Francis Bacon
Time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
All colours will agree in the dark.
— Francis Bacon
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
— Francis Bacon
Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ... and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
— Francis Bacon
Let the mind be enlarged ... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
— Francis Bacon
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
— Francis Bacon
Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
— Francis Bacon
Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
— Francis Bacon
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
— Francis Bacon
Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.
— Francis Bacon
The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it from leaping and flying.
— Francis Bacon
To know truly is to know by causes.
— Francis Bacon
Nothing is so mischievous as the apotheosis of error.
— Francis Bacon
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
— Francis Bacon
Boldness is a child of ignorance
— Francis Bacon
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
— Francis Bacon
Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.
— Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
— Francis Bacon
All will come out in the washing.
— Francis Bacon
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
— Francis Bacon
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
— Francis Bacon
It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.
— Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
— Francis Bacon
If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.
— Francis Bacon
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
— Francis Bacon
(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.
— Richard Armour
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
— Francis Bacon
You can't be more horrific than life itself,
— Francis Bacon
When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
— Francis Bacon
God's first creature, which was light.
— Francis Bacon
A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
— Francis Bacon
There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
— Francis Bacon
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
— Francis Bacon
What then remains, but that we still should cryNot to be born, or being born, to die? — Francis Bacon
A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
— Francis Bacon
If you can talk about it, why paint it?
— Francis Bacon
A man dies as often as he loses his friends.
— Francis Bacon
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
— Francis Bacon
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
— Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
— Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
— Francis Bacon
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason
— Francis Bacon
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
— Francis Bacon
Revenge is a king of wild justice.
— Francis Bacon
Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
Silence is the virtue of fools.
— Francis Bacon
Opportunity makes a thief.
— Francis Bacon
A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy
— Francis Bacon
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
— Francis Bacon
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
— Francis Bacon
He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'
— Francis Bacon
If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
— Francis Bacon
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.
— Francis Bacon
It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
— Francis Bacon
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
— Francis Bacon
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
— Francis Bacon
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
— Francis Bacon
People prefer to believe what they want to be true.
— Francis Bacon
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
— Francis Bacon
Come home to men's business and bosoms.
— Francis Bacon
Money is a good servant but a bad master. - SIR FRANCIS BACON
— Anthony Robbins
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
— Francis Bacon
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.
— Francis Bacon
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
— Francis Bacon
The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
— Francis Bacon
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
— Francis Bacon
There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
— Francis Bacon
All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.
— Francis Bacon
Mysteries are due to secrecy.
— Francis Bacon
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
— Francis Bacon
