6 Francis Bacon Quotes on Balance

Francis Bacon quotes on balance

74. 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.'

77. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

109. Cure the disease and kill the patient.

115. As for the passions and studies of the mind: avoid envy; anxious fears; anger fretting inwards; subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys and exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated. Entertain hopes; mirth rather than joy; variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.

117. Intermingle...jest with earnest.

132. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.