By: Francis Bacon THE stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury. You may observe,
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By: A.C. Grayling Bacon was a statesman, lawyer, essayist and philosopher. He had a spectacular career between his admission to Cambridge University at the age of twelve and his fall from high
WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an
By: Francis Bacon MEN fear death, as children fear to go in
By: Francis Bacon DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do
By: Francis Bacon 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. Certainly, the contemplation
By: Francis Bacon THE stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies;
By: A.C. Grayling Bacon was a statesman, lawyer, essayist and philosopher. He had a spectacular career between his admission to Cambridge University at the age of twelve and his fall from high
WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly, there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in