Francis Bacon Quotes, Love Quotes, Men Quotes

There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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