Tag: Francis Bacon
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon
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Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Francis Bacon
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.
Francis Bacon
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis Bacon