Francis Bacon on Certainties
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”
Francis Bacon on Death
“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.”
Francis Bacon on Change
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”
Francis Bacon on Beauty
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
