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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Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.
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Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
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Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
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Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress
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Set it down to thyself, as well to create good precedents as to follow them.
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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
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There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place
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It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion
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He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own
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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.
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In counsel it is good to see dangers; but in execution not to see them unless they be very great
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.