It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance. Francis Bacon More Quotes by Francis Bacon More Quotes From Francis Bacon Great changes are easier than small ones. Francis Bacon great-change easier change There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little. Francis Bacon suspicion littles men Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life. Francis Bacon affection beneficial anticipation What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Francis Bacon honesty truth answers Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be. Francis Bacon army sheep numbers The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought. Francis Bacon self men fall Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. Francis Bacon society use men There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. Francis Bacon health hurt men For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. Francis Bacon true-friend book looks A cat will never drown if she sees the shore. Francis Bacon shore cat ifs There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. Francis Bacon wells greater inspirational Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. Francis Bacon too-much authority power The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one? Francis Bacon voice together people Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. Francis Bacon errors confusion truth There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was." Francis Bacon mother father knowledge Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain. Francis Bacon communication brain long If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides. Francis Bacon succession daydreaming slides Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. Francis Bacon relief men knowledge For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. Francis Bacon cleanliness reverence body the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself. Francis Bacon serpent dragons want
