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 erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.


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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACON
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
FRANCIS BACON
In charity there is no excess.
FRANCIS BACON
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactl...
FRANCIS BACON
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient i...
FRANCIS BACON
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council thoug...
FRANCIS BACON
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the ...
FRANCIS BACON
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images...
FRANCIS BACON
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ...
FRANCIS BACON
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
FRANCIS BACON
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
FRANCIS BACON
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
FRANCIS BACON
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
FRANCIS BACON
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringe...
FRANCIS BACON
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this u...
FRANCIS BACON
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
FRANCIS BACON
Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
FRANCIS BACON
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with b...
FRANCIS BACON
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself,...
FRANCIS BACON
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
FRANCIS BACON
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
FRANCIS BACON
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
FRANCIS BACON
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingraine...
FRANCIS BACON
God's first creature, which was light.
FRANCIS BACON
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
FRANCIS BACON
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
FRANCIS BACON
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
FRANCIS BACON
A good conscience is a continual feast.
FRANCIS BACON
The wisdom of our ancestors.
FRANCIS BACON
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
FRANCIS BACON
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed op...
FRANCIS BACON
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON
Boldness is a child of ignorance.
FRANCIS BACON
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.
FRANCIS BACON
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the w...
FRANCIS BACON