Quote #23
All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion.
More from Francis Bacon
- We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
- 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…
- But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
- Primum quaerite bona animi; caetera aut aderunt, aut non oberunt
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Silence is the virtue of a fool.
- 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…
- Those who have taken upon them to lay down the law of nature as a thing already searched out and understood, whether they have spoken in si…