“A verdade é filha do tempo, não da autoridade.”
For rightlyis truth called the daughter of time, not of authority <br class="br">The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon Including the Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum - página 418 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=0Ow3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA418, Francis Bacon, Joseph Devey - G. Bell and Sons, 1808
Francis Bacon livro Essays
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses
Essays (1625); Of Marriage and Single Life [A vida de casados e solteiros]
“Nunca há excesso na caridade.”
Francis Bacon livro Essays
In charity there is no excess.
Essays (1625); Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature [A bondade de Deus e da Natureza]
“O homem deve criar as oportunidades e não somente encontrá-las.”
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it. <br class="br">Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: In quo continetur Instaurationis magnae pars tertia - Página 522 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=e2JUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA522, Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) - Impensis R. Gosling, 1730
“A prosperidade prontamente descobre o vício; mas a adversidade logo descobre a virtude.”
for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. <br class="br">"Essays Civil and Moral, item V - Of Adversity" in: "The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England" - Vol. I Página 14 http://books.google.com/books?id=qaORkIXGnmMC&pg=PA14, de Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Publicado por A. Hart, late Carey & Hart, 1852
The Intellect, if left to itself, in a sober, patient and grave disposition, (especially if it be not hindered by received doctrines,) tries somewhat that second and right way, but with only slight results; since the Intellect, unless it be ruled and helped, is unequal to and utterly unfit to overcome the obscurity of things. <br class="br">The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature, página 15 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=79oQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA15, Francis Bacon, traduzido por George William Kitchin, The University Press, 1855, 338 páginas
“A virtude da prosperidade é a temperança. A virtude da adversidade, a força.”
Francis Bacon livro Essays
the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude <br class="br">The Essays, Or Councils, Civil and Moral - Página 11 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=l9A5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA11, Francis Bacon - H. Clark, 1718