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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

English Philosopher

Born: Jan 22, 1561

Died: Apr 9, 1626

God Good Life Man Men Will

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. Francis Bacon

Nature Experience Perfect Studies Still

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. Francis Bacon

Best Rich Virtue Like Stone Plain Set

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Francis Bacon

Anger Men Makes Witty Dull Them Poor Keeps

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. Francis Bacon

Memory Secondary Please Objects Only Shapes Pictures Displease

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. Francis Bacon

Worse Must Torture Laws Beware Judges Than Inference Strained Hard

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. Francis Bacon

Hate Our Neighbors Ourselves Hating Loving

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. Francis Bacon

Lies Opinion Substance Breed Sufficient Brings

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. Francis Bacon

Men Others Ought Write Beholden Much

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. Francis Bacon

Life Way Ways About Fairer Surely Commonly Shortest Much

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. Francis Bacon

Learning People Speak Think Generally Opinions According Custom Ingrained Act

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