Francis Bacon
93 quotations
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
God's first creature, which was light.
It is natural to die as to be born.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.