Sir Francis Bacon Quotes

The most shameful baseness is flattery

Nothing is well known except through experience.

Travel is in youth a part of education and, in old age, a part of experience.

The crocodiles shed tears when they devour their victims. That is their wisdom.

The bad thing about pretending to be good is that it's terrible.

La felicidad de los grandes consiste no en sentirse felices, sino en comprender cuan felices piensan otros que han de ser ellos.

It's very difficult to make politics and morality compatible.

The most honorable role in a conversation belongs to the one who gives occasion to it, and then to the one who directs it and makes it move from one topic to another, for thus one leads the dance.

Doubt: the school of truth.

When danger seems light, it ceases to be light.

I have preferred to study books rather than men.

Death is the least of all evils.