Francis Bacon Quotes on Virtue
Francis Bacon was a 16th and early 17th-century English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, regarded as one of the founders of the modern scientific method and a major figure of early modern philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Francis Bacon on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Francis Bacon:
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
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“Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.”
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Attributed to Francis Bacon:
“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
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“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.”
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“Nay, number (itself) in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage ; for (as Virgil saith) it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.”
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“Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral (1597), XXIX: "Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates.”
Nay, number (itself) in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage ; for (as Virgil saith) it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.