275 ordspråk av Francis Bacon, Sr.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
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The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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The four pillars of government . . . (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure).
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other
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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one. Nay, it is obvious that the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.
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The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
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