Maxioms by Francis Bacon
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to read more
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may read more
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
