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Francis Bacon. The most famous aphorisms

Atheism is a thin layer of ice on which one person can walk, and the whole nation will fall into the abyss.
Aphorisms are by no means only for entertainment or embellishment of speech, they are certainly important and useful in business life and in civil practice.
The immortality of animals is in offspring, but of man - in glory, merit and deeds.
Libraries are shrines where the remains of great saints are kept.
Wealth exists to be spent, and spending is to do good and thus gain honor.
Wealth is a good maid, but a bad mistress.
Wealth cannot be a worthy goal of human existence.
Wealth is very good when it serves us, and very bad when it commands us.
Most of all, we flatter ourselves.
Be at least honest yourself enough not to lie to others.
In anger, fools are sharp-tongued, but this does not make them richer.
In life - as on the road: the shortest road is usually the dirtiest, and the longest is not much cleaner.
True beauty always has a flaw.
In peacetime, sons bury their fathers; in wartime, fathers bury their sons.
In nature, everything proves the existence of the following two laws: nothing is made from nothing and nothing is destroyed, but the actual so-called number or the whole sum of particles of matter remains unchanged, neither increasing nor decreasing.
In the dark, all colors are the same.
In hard times, business people are more useful than virtuous people.
The Old Testament considers prosperity to be a blessing. New Testament - misfortune.
The opportunity to steal creates a thief.
You can't challenge age.
Time is the greatest innovator.
All other vices are opposed to virtues, only pride comes into contact with them.
Our whole moral philosophy is nothing more than a servant of religion.
Every violent measure is fraught with new evil.
Anyone who loves loneliness is either a wild beast or the Lord God.
Anyone who loves loneliness is either a wild beast or the Lord God.
To choose the time means to save time, and what is done out of time is done in vain.
The genius, spirit, character of the people (nation) are manifested in his proverbs.
Heroism is an artificial concept, because courage is relative.
Pride is deprived of the best quality of vices - it is not able to hide.
The judge's job is to interpret the law, not to bestow it.
Money is like manure: if it is not scattered, it will be of little use.
Long speeches move things forward as much as a dress with a train helps walking.
For young people, wives are lovers, for middle-aged people they are life partners, for old people they are nurses.
A long life is better than a short one in every respect, including for virtue.
Ancient time - the youth of the world.
If pride rises from contempt for others to contempt for oneself, it becomes philosophy.
If some people despise wealth, it is because they have lost hope of getting rich. It is envy, aroused by wealth, that elevated virtue to the dignity of a goddess.
Pitiful is he who has few desires and many fears, and yet such is the fate of monarchs.
Wife and children teach humanity, bachelors are gloomy and harsh.
Marriage is a smart thing for a fool and a stupid thing for a smart one.
Laws are like a web: small insects get entangled in it, large ones never.
Knowledge is power, power is knowledge.
Knowledge itself is power.
Idols of the clan, cave, market, theater.
To avoid superstition is superstition.
The refined manners of some people are like poetry with counted syllables.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
To the memory of your predecessor, be fair and respectful, otherwise this debt will surely be paid to him after you.
As in nature, so in the state, it is easier to change many things at once than one thing.
Books are ships of thought, wandering along the waves of time and carefully carrying their precious cargo from generation to generation.
A hobbler on a straight road will overtake a runner who has gone astray.
When dealing with constantly cunning people, one must always keep in mind their goals. With such it is better to speak little and say what they least expect.
Extreme selfish people are ready to burn the house, just to fry their eggs.
A pretty face serves as a silent recommendation.
Beauty is like a precious stone: the simpler it is, the more precious it is.
A gullible person is a deceiver.
The cure is worse than the disease.
Flattery is the style of slaves.
Flattery is a kind of pipe with which birds are lured, imitating their voice.
A lie reveals a weak soul, a helpless mind, a vicious character.
To love and be wise is impossible.
Love for the motherland begins with the family.
People are afraid of death for the same reason children are afraid of the dark, because they don't know what it is.
People should know that in the theater of life only God and the angels are allowed to be spectators.
Manners reveal morals, just as a dress reveals the waist.
Many idiots and imbeciles are born from parents who indulge in drunkenness.
Many, thinking that they could buy everything with their wealth, sold themselves first of all.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
The man is already half in love with every woman who listens to him speak.
We can do as much as we know.
We have done nothing great, but only considered insignificant what was considered great.
The thoughts of philosophers are like stars; they do not give light, because they are too sublime.
Thoughts, like people, have their youth.
The high tower can only be reached by a spiral staircase.
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad dinner.
To enjoy happiness is the greatest blessing, to be able to give it to others is even greater.
Our behavior is like a contagious disease: good people pick up bad habits, just as the healthy get infected from the sick.
The ignorant despise science, the uneducated admire it, while the wise use it.
The ignorant despise science, the uneducated admire it, and the wise use it.
Undoubtedly, the best initiatives, which brought the greatest benefit to society, came from unmarried and childless people.
There is no greater harm to the state than to mistake cunning for wisdom.
There is no one who does evil for its own sake, but everyone does it for profit, or pleasure, or honor, or the like.
There is nothing worse than fear itself.
There is no perfect beauty without some unusual proportions.
No passion bewitches a person like love or envy.
One of the secrets of nature and politics is that it is safer to change many things than one.
Danger demands to be paid with pleasure.
Caution in words is superior to eloquence.
Courage does not keep a word.
The first impression is always imperfect: it represents a shadow, a surface, or a profile.
That traveler is bad who, having gone out into the open sea, believes that there is no land anywhere.
Superficial philosophy inclines the mind of man to godlessness, while the depths of philosophy turn the minds of people to religion.
Just as money determines the value of a commodity, words determine the price of swagger.
A habit is strongest when it begins in youth, and this is called education, which is, in essence, nothing but early habits.
Nature is conquered only by submission to it.
Nature is conquered only by obeying its laws.
Prosperity reveals our vices, and disasters our virtues.
The ant itself is a wise creature, but the garden is an enemy.
The worst loneliness is not having true friends.
No matter how many forms of government there are, there has always been and will be only one in the sciences - a form of freedom.
Stealth is the refuge of the weak.
A gloomy person serves as a toy for the smart, an idol for the fools, a prey for parasites and a slave to his own vanity.
Severity breeds fear, but rudeness breeds hatred.
Judges must remember that it is their business to interpret the law, not to bestow it.
Only anger and fear force the use of violence.
Only that pleasure is natural, which knows no satiety.
To be able to easily move from a joke to a serious one and from a serious one to a joke requires more talent than is commonly thought. Often a joke serves as a conductor of such a truth that would not have reached its goal without its help.
He who knows how to be silent hears many confessions, for who will open up to a talker and a gossip.
A good book is to its rivals as the serpent of Moses is to the rods of Egypt that it swallowed up.
A man really looks like a monkey: the higher he climbs, the more he shows his butt.
A person who goes on a trip to a country whose language he does not know, in fact, goes to school, and not to travel.
The less the story is true, the more enjoyable it is.
The less merit, the louder the praise.
Reading is talking with wise men, action is meeting fools.
Reading makes one knowledgeable, conversation makes one resourceful, and the habit of writing makes one accurate.

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