Francis Bacon
England
22 Jan 1561 // 9 Apr 1626
Philosopher / Statesman / Essayist
22 Jan 1561 // 9 Apr 1626
Philosopher / Statesman / Essayist
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread
Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses
The folly of one man is the fortune of another
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes
I would live to study, and not study to live
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend
A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays