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• A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

  Francis Bacon

  Revenge, Men, Green

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• Friends are thieves of time.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Thieves

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Philosophical works”, p.349

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• Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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  Twilight, Bird, Doubt

  Francis Bacon (1720). “Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...”, p.178

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• The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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  Friendship, Men, Giving

  Francis Bacon (2007). “Essays”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Errors, Two

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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• A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

  Francis Bacon

  Writing, Sparks, Faces

  Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral Aeropagitica Religio Medici”, p.228, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

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  Distance, Eye, Men

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.456

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• 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

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• The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Science, Secret

  New Atlantis (1627)

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• Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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  Fashion, Art, Realizing

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• The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

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  Science, Men, Medicine

  Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.371

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• The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

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  Knowledge, Knowing, Essentials

  Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.287

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• Innovations, which are the births of time.

  Francis Bacon

  Technology, Innovation, Birth

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

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• Whatever you can, count.

  Francis Bacon

  Math, Logic, Reasoning

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• Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

  Francis Bacon

  Army, Sheep, Numbers

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.68, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Consistency, Foundation, Virtue

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• One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Father, Men

  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.289

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• A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

  Francis Bacon

  Flower, Names, Odor

  Francis Bacon, Alexander Spiers, Basil Montagu (1858). “The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral: and The Wisdom of the Ancients”, p.233

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• Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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  Knowledge, Men, Relief

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 1, ch. 5, sect. 11

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• Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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  Wise, Men, Vanity

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• Boldness is a child of ignorance

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  Children, Ignorance, Boldness

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Boldness'.

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• The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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  Men, Mirrors, Race

  Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Vanity, Self

  Francis Bacon (1873). “The Essays of Lord Bacon”, p.114

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• It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

  Francis Bacon

  Change, Secret, States

  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.347

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• I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

  Francis Bacon

  Humanity, Arbitrary, Way

  Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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