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
man passing superior taking
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
knowledge province taken
I have taken all knowledge to be my province
cannot covetous man money possess properly thy
If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
certainly french hath man opinion seem spaniards wiser
It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man
body due proceed reverence
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
bad breakfast good hope
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
both built except houses preferred
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had
built houses
Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
champagne pain sham
Champagne for my sham friends; real pain for my real friends.
country entrance hath
He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
deny maketh none whom
For none deny there is a God, but those for whom it maketh that there were no God.
charitable foreign leave name next
For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages.
counsel execution good great unless
In counsel it is good to see dangers; but in execution not to see them unless they be very great
begins content man shall
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.