
„A vingança é uma espécie de justiça selvagem.“
— Francis Bacon, livro Essays
Revenge is a kind of wild justice
Essays (1625); Of Revenge [Da vingança]
— Francis Bacon, livro Essays
Revenge is a kind of wild justice
Essays (1625); Of Revenge [Da vingança]
— Francis Bacon, livro Essays
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
The Essays, or Councils, civil and moral of Sir Francis Bacon ... With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. And a Discourse of the Wisdom of the Ancients (done into English by Sir Arthur Gorges). To this edition is added the Character of Queen Elizabeth; never before printed in English, página 135 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=ripcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA135, Francis Bacon, Sir Arthur GORGES - R. Chiswell, 1706
Variante: A leitura faz ao homem completo; a conversa, ágil, e o escrever, preciso.
— 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]
— Francis Bacon, livro Essays
Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others
The Essays, or Councils, civil and moral of Sir Francis Bacon ... With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. And a Discourse of the Wisdom of the Ancients (done into English by Sir Arthur Gorges). To this edition is added the Character of Queen Elizabeth; never before printed in English, página 62 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=urVcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA62, Francis Bacon, Sir Arthur GORGES - For Henry Herringman and are to be sold by Timothy Childe, 1701
— Francis Bacon, livro Essays
There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
The Essays, or Councils, civil and moral of Sir Francis Bacon ... With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. And a Discourse of the Wisdom of the Ancients (done into English by Sir Arthur Gorges). To this edition is added the Character of Queen Elizabeth; never before printed in English, página 116 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=urVcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA116, Francis Bacon, Sir Arthur GORGES - For Henry Herringman and are to be sold by Timothy Childe, 1701
— Francis Bacon, livro Essays
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public.
Essays (1625); Of Marriage and Single Life [A vida de casados e solteiros]
— 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]
— Francis Bacon, livro Essays
the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude
The Essays, Or Councils, Civil and Moral - Página 11 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=l9A5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA11, Francis Bacon - H. Clark, 1718
— Francis Bacon, livro Essays
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals
Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed, página 32 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=UQYzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP32, Francis Bacon - H. Hooper, 1598