Quotes of Bacon, Sir Francis
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. |
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. |
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. |
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It is impossible to love and be wise. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. |
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