More from Francis Bacon

  1. Primum quaerite bona animi; caetera aut aderunt, aut non oberunt
  2. 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…
  3. 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…
  4. Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought o…
  5. All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion.
  6. Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be…
  7. We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
  8. It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which …

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