The remedy is worse than the disease.
Francis Bacon

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon

The worst men often give the best advice.
Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
Francis Bacon

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon