Men quotes by Sir Francis Bacon

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"Men in Great Place are thrice Servants: Servants of the Sovereign or State; Servants of Fame; and Servants of Business … It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty."
"The world's a bubble; and the life of man Less than a span."
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
"Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise."
"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies."
"Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind."
"Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical."
"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."
"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
"We cannot command nature except by obeying her."
"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 of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."
"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."
"Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything."
"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion."
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks."
"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
"If a man will begin in certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties."
"The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other."
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order."