275 ordspråk av Francis Bacon, Sr.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
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Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it
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Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the viruous.
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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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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue
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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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Reading maketh a full man.
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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