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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 11

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

Francis Bacon (2007). “Essays”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

Francis Bacon (1720). “Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...”, p.178

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

Francis Bacon (1826*). “The Beauties of Bacon”, p.96

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral Aeropagitica Religio Medici”, p.228, Cosimo, Inc.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.456

Silence is the virtue of fools.

'De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum' (1640 ed., translated by Gilbert Watts) I, vii, 31

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

Francis Bacon, Alexander Spiers, Basil Montagu (1858). “The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral: and The Wisdom of the Ancients”, p.233

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.289

Boldness is a child of ignorance

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Boldness'.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Francis Bacon (1873). “The Essays of Lord Bacon”, p.114

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.347

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature'