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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

Francis Bacon
Men, Self Love, Should
Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.451

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Francis Bacon
Patience, Optimism, Soul

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon
Happiness, Beauty, Art
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Beauty'

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Francis Bacon
Inspirational, Life, Choices

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Francis Bacon
Power, Men, Self
Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.459

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

Francis Bacon
Kindness, Kids, Caring

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Francis Bacon
Inspiring, Travel, 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.361

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Francis Bacon
Ornaments, Delight, Study
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

Francis Bacon
Mind, Bending, Bows
Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1834). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.213

Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

Francis Bacon
Photography, Jesus, Light

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Francis Bacon
Change, Innovation, Growth
"Essays, Civil and Moral Aeropagitica Religio Medici".

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Francis Bacon
Truth, Errors, Confusion

To know truly is to know by causes.

Francis Bacon
Causes, Knows
Francis Bacon, Lisa Jardine, Michael Silverthorne (2000). “Francis Bacon: The New Organon”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

In charity there is no excess.

Francis Bacon
Inspirational, Inspiration, Excess
Francis Bacon, Peter Shaw (1733). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High-Chancellor of England: Methodized, and made English from the Originals, with occasional notes, To explain what is obscure; and show how far the several PLANS of the AUTHOR, for the Advancement of all the Parts of Knowledge, have been executed to the Present Time”, p.91

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

Francis Bacon
Encouragement, Wonder, Snowflake

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

Francis Bacon
Peace, Father, War
Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.145

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon
Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon
Change, Time, Acceptance
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Francis Bacon
Fear, Parenting, Grieving

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Francis Bacon
Life, Art, Winning

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Francis Bacon
Courage, Bravery, Comparison
Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1853). “The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, with a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil ... Revised from the Early Copies, with the References Now First Supplied, and a Few Notes, by Thomas Markby”, p.115

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

Francis Bacon
Beautiful, Tree, Violence

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Francis Bacon
Dog, Truth, Errors

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

Francis Bacon
Nature, Understanding, Subtlety
1620 Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism10.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

Francis Bacon
People, Common, Praise

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