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.
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.
friendship heart want
Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
friendship real solitude
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
friendship forgiveness enemy
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
friendship true-friend lying
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.
friendship men giving
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
friendship grief joy
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
best-friend friendship worst
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
faculties fortunate fortune giving light men number rather scarce seen smaller
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate
man wise
The wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
cannot discovery greater nature since subtlety suffice
Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work, since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument.