Only the Greatest and the Best Quotes from Francis Bacon




Quote : "Seek the good of other men' but be not in bondage to their faces or fancies; for that is but facility' or softness; which taketh an honest mind prisoner."

Quote : "If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers' it shows he is a citizen of the world' and that his heart is no island' cut off from other lands' but a continent' that joins to them."

Quote : "If he be thankful for small benefits' it shows that he weighs men's minds' and not their trash."

Quote : "Men's eyes are upon the business' and not upon the persons; or if upon the persons' it is for the business' sake."

Quote : "A great and potent nobility' addeth majesty to a monarch' but diminisheth power; and putteth life and spirit into it."

Quote : "New nobility is but the act of power' but ancient nobility is the act of time."

Quote : "It is true' that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

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