Francis Bacon Quotes about Fate

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
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.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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.332