Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.


Sir Francis Bacon

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy...
FRANCIS BACON
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
FRANCIS BACON
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
FRANCIS BACON
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACON
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and t...
FRANCIS BACON
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
FRANCIS BACON
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
FRANCIS BACON
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more...
FRANCIS BACON
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; ...
FRANCIS BACON
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
FRANCIS BACON
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his...
FRANCIS BACON
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
FRANCIS BACON
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet ...
FRANCIS BACON
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
FRANCIS BACON
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honore...
FRANCIS BACON
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
FRANCIS BACON
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and...
FRANCIS BACON
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...
FRANCIS BACON
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next age...
FRANCIS BACON
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
FRANCIS BACON
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
FRANCIS BACON
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
FRANCIS BACON
I would live to study, and not study to live.
FRANCIS BACON
Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than conf...
FRANCIS BACON
For knowledge itself is power.
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
FRANCIS BACON
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
FRANCIS BACON
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
FRANCIS BACON
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...
FRANCIS BACON
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
FRANCIS BACON
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
FRANCIS BACON
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
FRANCIS BACON