Francis Bacon Sr Quotes

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. - Francis Bacon Sr.

What then remains but that we still should cry for being born, and, being born, to die? - Francis Bacon Sr.

What is it then to have or have no wife, / But single thraldom, or a double strife? - Francis Bacon Sr.

We cannot too often think there is a never sleeping eye, which reads the heart, and registers our thoughts. - Francis Bacon Sr.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon Sr.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. - Francis Bacon Sr.

Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. - Francis Bacon Sr.

Virtue is like a rich stone, - best plain set. - Francis Bacon Sr.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts. - Francis Bacon Sr.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. - Francis Bacon Sr.

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