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
forgiveness revenge anger
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)
nature art men
Art is man added to Nature.
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
forgiveness revenge anger
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
character men mind
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.