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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, 3 Monate, 22 Tage oder 169.585 Tage alt.

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

• Liberty of speech inviteth and provoketh liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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• Light gains make heavy purses.

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• Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'
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• Man ought to know that in the theater of human life, it is only for Gods and angels to be spectators.

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• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

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• Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repeat too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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• Men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

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• Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

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• Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason.

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• Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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• Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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• Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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• Nature cannot be ordered about, except by obeying her.

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• Nature is a labyrinth in which the very hate you move with will make you lose your way.

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• Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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• Neither is money the sinews of war (as it is trivially said).

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• Neither will it be, that a people overlaid with taxes should ever become valiant and martial.

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• New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.

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