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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

• We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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• We cannot too often think, that there is a never sleeping eye that reads the heart, and registers our thoughts.

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• We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom.

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• We think according to nature; we speak according to rules; but we act according to custom.

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• What is it then to have or have no wife, But single thraldom, or a double strife?

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• What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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• What then remains, but that we still should cry, Not to be born, or being born, to die?

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• When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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• When any of the four pillars of government - religion, justice, counsel, and treasure - are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

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• Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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• Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

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• Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

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• Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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• Wise nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high: and therefore . . . exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.

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• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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• Words are the tokens current and accepted for conceits, as moneys are for values.

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• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

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• C'est la meilleure part de la beauté que celle qu'un tableau ne peut exprimer.

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• Ce n'est pas ce que nous prêchons mais ce que nous faisons qui nous fait devenir Chrétiens.

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