Francis Bacon quotes Born: 01/22/1561 Died: 04/09/1626 Country: united_kingdom

• Consistency is the foundation of virtue. (Francis Bacon) [virtue]
• Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. (Francis Bacon) [look/men]
• A good conscience is a continual feast. (Francis Bacon) [conscience/feast]
• It is natural to die as to be born. (Francis Bacon)
• It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. (Francis Bacon)
• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. (Francis Bacon) [stroke/death]
• Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. (Francis Bacon) [speech/more/eloquence/speak]
• People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. (Francis Bacon) [people/think/speak]
• If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. (Francis Bacon)
• The place of justice is a hallowed place. (Francis Bacon) []
• If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon) [start/start]
• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon) [willpower/start/willpower/content]
• The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. (Francis Bacon) [desire/power/desire/knowledge]
• In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon) [start/content/start]
• Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. (Francis Bacon) [philosophy]
• Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. (Francis Bacon) [thoughts]
• Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. (Francis Bacon) [wealth/rest]
• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. (Francis Bacon) [life/habit/willpower/agreeable]
• In charity there is no excess. (Francis Bacon) [charity]
• To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting. (Francis Bacon) [exercise]
• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. (Francis Bacon) [wife/fortune/virtue]
• Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. (Francis Bacon) [fortune/market/price/willpower]
• Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. (Francis Bacon) [fortune/fortune]
• Acorns were good until bread was found. (Francis Bacon)
• Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. (Francis Bacon) [men/facts]
• Riches are for spending. (Francis Bacon)
• The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. (Francis Bacon) [action/more]
• Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. (Francis Bacon) [men/poets/philosophy/logic]
• God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. (Francis Bacon) [god/garden/human/pleasure]
• None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. (Francis Bacon) [envy]
• A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. (Francis Bacon) [letter]

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