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Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined both in race and in time.
The Essays of Francis Bacon/LVII Of Anger (1597)
Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare—to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Essays (1625)
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
Essays (1625)
There is no worse torture than the torture of laws.
I would live to study, and not study to live.
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
Novum Organum (1620)
If we depart from the letter, we are not interpreting the law, but guessing at the law.
The Scripture exhorteth us To possess our souls in patience. Whosoever is out of patience, is out of possession of his soul.
The Essays of Francis Bacon/LVII Of Anger (1597)
Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest.
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
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.
The master of superstition is the people, and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.
Let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is, further and further to discover truth.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
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.
Novum Organum (1620)
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
De Sapientia Veterum (1609)
My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
Apophthegms (1624)
Riches are the baggage of virtue; they cannot be spared nor left behind, but they hinder the march.