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Quotes from Sir Francis Bacon

Quien no quiere pensar es un fanático; quien no puede pensar es un idiota; quien no osa pensar es un cobarde.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Mixture of lie doeth ever add pleasure.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Lie faces God and shrikns from men
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
To spend too much time in them [studying] is sloth, to use them too much for ornament is affectation, to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor* of a scholar….
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue. (c. 1625)
~ Sir Francis Bacon
The best work, and of greatest merit for the public, has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
This world's a bubble.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
~ Sir Francis Bacon