Francis Bacon
93 quotations
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Mysteries are due to secrecy.
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Nature is commanded by obeying her.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Opportunity makes a thief.
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
All colors will agree in the dark.