Francis
Bacon Quotes - A man dies as often as he loses his friends
“Existence
is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it.
Francis
Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson”
―
Francis Bacon
“[W]hen
any of the four pillars of government are mainly shaken or weakened (which are
religion, justice, counsel and treasure), men had need to pray for fair
weather.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“For
bleeding inwards and shut vapours strangle soonest and oppress most.”
―
Francis Bacon, The works of Lord Bacon: with an introductory essay, Volume 1
“A
man dies as often as he loses his friends.”
―
Francis Bacon
“There
be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Age
appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink,
old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
―
Francis Bacon
“For
whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the
image of existence and things mean and splendid exist alike.”
―
Francis Bacon
“I
will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Read
Not
to
Contradict
Or
Confute
Nor
To
Believe
Or
Take
For
Granted
But
To
Weigh
And
Consider
Oh
the side of my high school building”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“Knowledge
Is Power”
―
Francis Bacon
“You
shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but you
never read, that we are commanded to forgive our friends. But yet the spirit of
Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not
be content to take evil also? And so of friends in a”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“Some
books are to be tasted (0-2), others to be swallowed (3), and some few to be
chewed and digested(4-5); that is, some books are to be read only in parts;
others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and
with diligence and attention”
―
Francis Bacon
“I
would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them,
like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory of the past
events as the snail leaves its slime.
Francis
Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson”
―
Francis Bacon
“..it
often falls out that somewhat is produced of nothing; for lies are sufficient
to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“We
gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our
hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the
deep".”
―
Francis Bacon
“It
is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and
settleth in it, that doth the hurt.”
―
Francis Bacon
“Men
create oppositions, which are not; and put them into new terms, so fixed, as
whereas the meaning ought to govern the term, the term in effect governeth the
meaning.”
―
Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral
“There
are Idols which we call Idols of the Market. For Men associate by Discourse,
and a false and improper Imposition of Words strangely possesses the
Understanding, for Words absolutely force the Understanding, and put all Things
into Confusion.”
―
Francis Bacon
“It
is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to
fear. And yet that commonly is the case of kings...”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“He
that is only real had need have exceeding great parts of virtue, as the stone
had need be rich that is set without foil.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“Look
when the world hath fewest barbarous peoples, but such as commonly will not
marry or generate, except they know means to live (as it is almost everywhere
at this day, except Tartary), there is no danger of inundations of people; but
when there be great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without
foreseeing means of life and sustentation, it is of necessity that once in an
age or two, they discharge a portion of their people upon other nations; which
the ancient northern people were wont to do by lot; casting lots what part
should stay at home, and what should seek their fortunes. When a warlike state
grows soft and effeminate, they may be sure of a war. For commonly such states
are grown rich in the time of their degenerating; and so the prey inviteth, and
their decay in valor, encourageth a war.”
―
Francis Bacon, Complete Works of Francis Bacon
“All
colours will agree in the dark.”
―
Francis Bacon
