Francis Bacon Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Silence is the virtue of fools.

  Francis Bacon

  Luxury, Silence, Fool

  'De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum' (1640 ed., translated by Gilbert Watts) I, vii, 31

• Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Witty, Integrity, Judging

  "Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral".

• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

  Francis Bacon

  Character, Men, Mind

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.462

• The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

  Francis Bacon

  War, Adversity, Conflict

  1625 Essays, no.5,'Of Adversity'.

• Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Atheist, Philosophy, Men

• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

  Francis Bacon

  Kindness, Kids, Caring

• Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Adversity, Vices, Prosperity

• Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Law, Understanding

  Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 4”, p.246

• Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Order

  "Essays". Book by Francis Bacon. Chapter 17: "Of Superstition", 1625.

• Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Consistency, Foundation, Virtue

• For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Men, Evil

• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Wife, Virtue

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Lucan 3

• Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

  Francis Bacon

  Virtue, Crushed

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.516

• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

  Francis Bacon

  Stones, Rich, Virtue

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Beauty'

• Praise is the reflection of virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Reflection, Praise, Virtue

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.374

• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Children, Mean

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

• 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

  Francis Bacon

  Opportunity, Men, Hands

• A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

  Francis Bacon

  Depressing, Men, Hands

  Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor”, p.310

• The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

  Francis Bacon

  Stars, Men, Light

  "Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience and advancement of learning".

• Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

  Francis Bacon

  Library, Shrines, Saint

  Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1996). “The Major Works”, p.170, Oxford University Press, USA

• Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Adversity, Vices, Odor

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

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