Francis Bacon Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Loneliness, Real Friends

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Friendship'

• It is impossible to love and to be wise.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  Francis Bacon (1873). “The Essays of Lord Bacon”, p.39

• Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Friendly, Mankind

• The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Inquiry, Sovereign

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

• The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Hyperbole, Perpetual

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Love'

• Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Men, Gold

  'Essay of Death' in The Remaines of...Lord Verulam (1648)

• There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Men, Secret

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.33

• The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Men, Tragedy

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

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