Francis Bacon quotes

“The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.”

— Francis Bacon

“The place of justice is a hallowed place.”

— Francis Bacon

“The remedy is worse than the disease.”

— Francis Bacon

“The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.”

— Francis Bacon

“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.”

— Francis Bacon

“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.”

— Francis Bacon

“There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.”

— Francis Bacon

“Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.”

— Francis Bacon

“They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.”

— Francis Bacon

“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

“What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.”

— Francis Bacon