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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Francis Bacon
Loss, Funny Friend, Men

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Francis Bacon
Daughter, Mother, Time
Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Francis Bacon
Hands, Giving, Advice

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Francis Bacon
Money, Men, Greed

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

Francis Bacon
Potatoes, Ancestor, Valuable

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Francis Bacon
Money, Littles, Use

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Francis Bacon
Lunch Break, Cooking Dinner, Breakfast

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

Francis Bacon
Eye, Green, Grass
Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.106, Jazzybee Verlag

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Francis Bacon
Halloween, Entrepreneur, Political

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

Francis Bacon
Envy, Cases
Francis Bacon (1866). “The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh”, p.22

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Francis Bacon
Forgiveness, Revenge, Anger
Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.515

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

Francis Bacon
Masters, Servant, Ifs

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon
Love, Loneliness, Real Friends
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Friendship'

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Francis Bacon
Marriage, Wedding, Men
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Marriage and the Single Life'

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Francis Bacon
Justice, Fairness, Criminal Justice
Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1844). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author”, p.311

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

Francis Bacon
Choices, Understanding, Statistics
Francis Bacon (1985). “The Essays”, p.423, Penguin UK

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

Francis Bacon
Friendship, Best Friend, Worst

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Francis Bacon
Life, Change, Philosophical

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

Francis Bacon
People, Revolution, Common

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Francis Bacon
Fate, Men, Well Known
Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Francis Bacon
Happiness, New Beginnings, Loss
Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Francis Bacon
Humility, Mirrors, Objectivity
Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Francis Bacon
Truth, Lying, Inspirational Life
Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.511

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon
Wise, Peace, Hurt
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Cunning'

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