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Philosoph, Staatsmann, Lordkanzler, Wegbereiter des Empirismus, "Novum Organum", "Essays" (England, 1561 - 1626).

Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Francis Bacon wäre heute 464 Jahre, 2 Monate, 9 Tage oder 169.541 Tage alt.

Geboren am 22.01.1561 in London
Gestorben am 09.04.1626 in Highgate bei London
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann

• No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.

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• No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.

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• No term of moderation takes place with the vulgar.

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• Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

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• Not what we preach but what we do makes us Christians.

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• Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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• Nothing is to be feared but fear.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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• Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Opportunity makes a thief.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Perils commonly ask to be paid on pleasures.

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• Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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• Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.

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• Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.

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• Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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

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• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.

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• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

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• Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.

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