Francis Bacon Quotes

“Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

topic:love friendship morality

“For it is a true rule, that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

topic:love

“Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

topic:death fear darkness children

“the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands.”

― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

topic:power learning

“A man that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

topic:time age

“As the births of living creatures, at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

topic:time weakness

“Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

topic:women men age

“all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself”

― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

topic:knowledge pleasure

“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.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

topic:freedom power desire

“Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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