Francis Bacon Quotes About Honor

Quotes about: Honor

• 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 . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Lying, Adventure

  Francis Bacon (2012). “Complete Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

• Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

  Francis Bacon

  Honor, Riches, Action

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.51, 谷月社

• There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

  Francis Bacon

  Revenge, Fear, Grief

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

• The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

  Francis Bacon

  Judging, Honor, Succeed

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