Francis Bacon Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Men Quotes

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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