Quote #72
Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
More from Francis Bacon
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
- Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
- It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man, so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death; and therefo…
- It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, 'It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.'
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
- It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that 'The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the…
- There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
- Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.