More from Francis Bacon

  1. Lucid intervals and happy pauses.
  2. Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
  3. I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful t…
  4. Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret.
  5. Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.
  6. I bequeath my soul to God... My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreig…
  7. I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I…
  8. We have also sound houses, where we practice and demonstrate all sounds and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quar…

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