Francis Bacon Quotes
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. It is impossible to love and to be wise. It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. It is natural to die as to be born. Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. Knowledge and human power are synonymous. Knowledge is power. Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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