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Francis Bacon

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.


— Francis Bacon


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The place of justice is a hallowed place.


— Francis Bacon


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The remedy is worse than the disease.


— Francis Bacon


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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.


— Francis Bacon


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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.


— Francis Bacon


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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.


— Francis Bacon


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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.


— Francis Bacon


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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.


— Francis Bacon


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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.


— Francis Bacon


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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.


— Francis Bacon


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About Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon Quotes




Did you know about Francis Bacon?

In 1588 he became MP for Liverpool and then for Middlesex in 1593. For the next three years he visited Blois Poitiers Tours Italy and Spain. For two years he worked quietly at Gray's Inn until he was admitted as an outer barrister in 1582.

Although his political career ended in disgrace he remained extremely influential through his works especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. AlbanKt. He famously died by contracting pneumonia while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat bringing him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.

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