Quotes by Bacon, Francis

"Time is the measure of business."

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"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

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"Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion."

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"It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below."

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"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."

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"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."

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"Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety."

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."

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"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

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"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

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"For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced."

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"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business."

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"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."

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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

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"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."

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"Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit."

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"A good conscience is a continual feast."

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"Consistency is the foundation of virtue."

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"Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect."

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"The place of justice is a hallowed place."

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"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."

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"God's first creature, which was light."

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"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."

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"It is natural to die as to be born."

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"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other."

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"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."

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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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"Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business; Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and that, which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. "

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"Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. "

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"Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons. "

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"Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be. "

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"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all. "

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"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."

Bacon, Francis on atheism