Francis Bacon Quotes
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
It is natural to die as to be born.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
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.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
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
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain