I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious
Sir Francis Bacon
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Sir Francis Bacon
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order
Sir Francis Bacon
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order
Sir Francis Bacon
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
Sir Francis Bacon
A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
Sir Francis Bacon
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Sir Francis Bacon