275 ordspråk av Francis Bacon, Sr.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Francis Bacon, Sr. föddes den 22 januari 1561 och dog den 9 april 1626
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 In superstition wise men follow fools |
| In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior |
| In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad." |
| It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands |
| It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together, in few words, than in that speech: `Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast, or a god'. |
| It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man |
| It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding that it can hold men's hearts by hopes when it cannot by satisfaction |
| It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less. |
| It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear; and yet that commonly is the case of kings |
| It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear |
| It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth. |
| It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one. |
| It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. |
| It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other |
| 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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