BACON’S QUOTATIONS

OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE

“Wives are young men’s mistresses; companions for middle age; and old
men’s nurses.”
OF GREAT PLACE
“The vices of authority are chiefly four; delays, corruption, roughness and
facility.”
OF FRIENDSHIP
“arza to open the liver”
“steel to open the spleen”
“flower of sulphur for the lungs”
“castoreum for the brain”
“but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend”
OF STUDIES
“Reading maketh a full moon; conference a ready man; and writing an
exact man”
OF NATURE IN MEN
“bend nature as a wand to a contrary extreme”
OF UNITY IN RELIGION
Bacon quotes Christ words:
“He that is not with us is against us”
Bacon quotes Christ words:
“He that is not against us is with us”
OF SUITORS
“Iniquum petas ut aequum feras”
(Ask more than is reasonable, that you may get as much as is reasonable”
OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN
Bacon quotes Solomon words:
“A wise son rejoiceth the father, but an ungracious son shames the mother
 OF SUPERSTITION
“Superstition, without a veil, is deformed thing”
“wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms”
OF NOBILITY
“virtues remain to their posterity and their faults dies with themselves”
OF AMBITION
“Tiberius used Macro in the pulling down of Sejarus”
“If they rise not with their service, they will take order to make their
service fall”
OF DEATH
“Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa”
(The solemn accompaniments of death are more fearful then death itself”
OF ADVERSITY
“The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is
fortitude”
“the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good
things that belong to adversity are to be admired”
OF SIMMULATION AND DISSIMULATION
Bacon quotes shrewed proverb of the Spsiniard:
“Tell a lie and find a troth”
Metaphor
“feathers of round flying up to the mark”
OF TRUTH
“A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure”
OF REVENGE
Bacon quotes Solomon words:
“It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence”
“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green”