Quote #102

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

More from Francis Bacon

  1. Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
  2. Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
  3. The greatest trust, between man and man, is the trust of giving counsel. For in other confidences, men commit the parts of life; their land…
  4. It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
  5. Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.
  6. As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
  7. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that traveleth into a country before he hath so…
  8. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

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