Quote #21

But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

More from Francis Bacon

  1. They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
  2. We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
  3. The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of thin…
  4. All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion.
  5. The greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a des…
  6. For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the b…
  7. Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. [The age of antiquity is the youth of the world.] These times are the ancient times, when the world is a…
  8. Primum quaerite bona animi; caetera aut aderunt, aut non oberunt

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