Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC KCwas an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 January 1561
atheism tears crocodiles
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
persistence fire clay
In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
eye green grass
Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
writing men use
But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.
weakness lasts cords
The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
wise men vanity
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
study
I would live to study, not study to live.
men debt occupation
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
distance eye men
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
race earth crime
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness.
moving government states
States are great engines moving slowly.
government empires wands
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
dog men generosity
Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God
fool fortune darling
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.