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Quotes from bacon francis v

For justs, and tourneys, and barriers; the glories of them are chiefly in the chariots, wherein the challengers make their entry; especially if they be drawn with strange beasts: as lions, bears, camels, and the like; or in the devices of their entrance; or in the bravery of their liveries; or in the goodly furniture of their horses and armor. But enough of these toys.
~ bacon francis v
For quarrels, they are with care and discretion to be avoided. They are commonly for mistresses, healths, place, and words.
~ bacon francis v
Nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise.
~ bacon francis v
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
~ bacon francis v
No people overcharged with tribute, is fit for empire.
~ bacon francis v
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
~ bacon francis v
He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
~ bacon francis v
Let states that aim at greatness, take heed how their nobility and gentlemen do multiply too fast. For that maketh the common subject, grow to be a peasant and base swain, driven out of heart, and in effect but the gentleman's laborer.
~ bacon francis v
Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced; the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression.
~ bacon francis v
The folly of one man, is the fortune of another. For no man prospers so suddenly, as by others' errors.
~ bacon francis v
Wise judges have prescribed that men may not rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor the evidence against them; for the witches themselves are imaginative; and people are credulous, and ready to impute accidents to witchcraft.
~ bacon francis v
Men that are great lovers of themselves, waste the public.
~ bacon francis v
But as Cicero, when he setteth down an idea of a perfect orator, doth not mean that every pleader should be such; and so likewise, when a prince or a courtier hath been described by such as have handled those subjects, the mould hath used to be made according to the perfection of the art, and not according to common practice: so I understand it, that it ought to be done in the description of a politic man, I mean politic for his own fortune.
~ bacon francis v