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
friends-or-friendship sincere solitude worst
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
friendly love maketh
Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
friends-or-friendship joys man
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
love loneliness real-friends
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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A man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
friendship heart want
Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
loss funny-friend men
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
true-friend real solitude
But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
true-friend book looks
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart....
friendship world littles
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
friendship thieves
Friends are thieves of time.