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
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
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In counsel it is good to see dangers; but in execution not to see them unless they be very great
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Set it down to thyself, as well to create good precedents as to follow them.
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Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.
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It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion
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He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own
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Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
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Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress
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Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
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The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self
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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
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I would live to study, and not study to live.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.