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
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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
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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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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
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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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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
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Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.