Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and be wise.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

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.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature
runs to, the more ought law to read more

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

If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should
not have great account to read more

If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should
not have great account to render at my death.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there read more

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.