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Quotations of selected author

Francis Bacon

1. "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

source: "Essays"

categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man -:- Youth and Age

2. "There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

categories: Happiness -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

3. "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

categories: Art and Culture

4. "Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

categories: God and Religion -:- Science and Technology

5. "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

source: "Essays"

categories: Justice -:- Law and Crime -:- Anger

6. "Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

source: "Essays"

categories: Art and Culture -:- Human

7. "Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time."

categories: Memory

8. "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

source: "Essays"

categories: Success and Fame -:- Youth and Age

9. "Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

categories: Happiness -:- Life and Death -:- Time and Passing

10. "If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us."

categories: Justice

11. "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

source: "The Advancement of Learning"

categories: Education

12. "Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend."

source: "Essays"

categories: Human

13. "Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."

categories: Life and Death -:- Work and Laziness

14. "Age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

categories: Youth and Age

15. "A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison."

categories: Health and Alcohol


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