Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorThe crocodiles shed tears when they devour their victims. That is their wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorThe bad thing about pretending to be good is that it's terrible.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorLa felicidad de los grandes consiste no en sentirse felices, sino en comprender cuan felices piensan otros que han de ser ellos.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorIt's very difficult to make politics and morality compatible.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorThe 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.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorDoubt: the school of truth.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorWhen danger seems light, it ceases to be light.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorI have preferred to study books rather than men.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorDeath is the least of all evils.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorChoosing one's own time is gaining time.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorDiscretion is a virtue, without which the others cease to be so.
Sir Francis Bacon
View AuthorA man is no more than what he knows.