Francis Bacon Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Men Quotes

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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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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The place of justice is a hallowed place.

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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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In all superstition wise men follow fools.

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A good conscience is a continual feast.

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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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

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Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

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