Only the Greatest and the Best Quotes from Francis Bacon




Quote : "For prosperity doth best discover vice' but adversity doth best discover virtue."

Quote : "THE joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears."

Quote : "Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death."

Quote : "The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds' where those of their bodies have failed."

Quote : "So the care of posterity is most in them' that have no posterity."

Quote : "A wise son rejoiceth the father' but an ungracious son shames the mother."

Quote : "Younger brothers are commonly fortunate' but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited."

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