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• For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Men, Belief

  'Novum Organum' (1620) bk. 1, Aphorism 49 (translated by J. Spedding).

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• The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Illustration, Mystery

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• I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Vanity, Should Have

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• I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Men, May

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Dispatch'

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• To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Anger, Sins Not

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1867). “Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately”, p.296

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• If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

  Francis Bacon

  Deception, Done, Want

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

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Hyperbole, Perpetual

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Love'

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• Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

  Francis Bacon

  Attitude, Boost Self Esteem, Boost Self Confidence

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Wisdom for a Man's Self'.

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• The place of justice is a hallowed place.

  Francis Bacon

  Justice, Ears

  Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1857). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition”, p.120

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• 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.

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  Stars, Men, Light

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

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• Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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  Atheist, Heart, Men

  Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1996). “The Major Works”, p.371, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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.

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  Revenge, Fear, Grief

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

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• He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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  Men, Age, Tasks

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.69, 谷月社

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• But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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  Book, Men, Renovation

  Francis Bacon, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Rawley (1861). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces”, p.318

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• Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Modesty, Wells

  Francis Bacon (1856). “Bacon's Essays”, p.478

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• He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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  Age, Plot, Decay

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• I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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  Perfection, Trying, Nervous

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• You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

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  Inspiration, Needs, Paint

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• But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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  Writing, Men, Use

  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.536

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• I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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  Illustration, Drawing, Would Be

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• Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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  Artist, Thinking, Expression

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• 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.

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  Truth, Lying, Adventure

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

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• I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

  Francis Bacon

  Thinking, Chance, Painter

  Francis Bacon (1983). “フランシス・ベーコン”

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• I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

  Francis Bacon

  People, Canvas, Paint

  "One continuous accident mounting on top of another" by David Sylvester, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.

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• Art is man added to Nature.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Nature, Men

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