Quote #144
The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.
More from Francis Bacon
- The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
- Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
- To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down…
- What then remains but that we still should cry Not to be born, or, being born, to die?
- 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.
- Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
- The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.
- Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.