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
envy affection has-beens
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
sleep exercise long
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.
funny-friend world wilderness
Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
time ancient latter
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
adventure errors sea
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
art magic secret
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
peace war father
Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
opportunity men
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
dream winter astrology
Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
dream men vanity
Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.
people loser
Always let losers have their words.
business men degrees
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
men sovereign fame
Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
believe men envy
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.