Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC KCwas an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 January 1561
certainly french hath man opinion seem spaniards wiser
It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one. Nay, it is obvious that the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
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I have taken all knowledge to be my province
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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays
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If we begin with certainties, we will end in doubt. But if we begin with doubts and bear them patiently, we may end in certainty.
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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
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In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, ""The world says,"" or ""There is a speech abroad.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.