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• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
  -- Francis Baco...
• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Revenge...
• For the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book i, (1605.)...
• Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were no
  but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men....
• Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. -- Francis Baco
• It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
  -- Francis Baco...
• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -- Francis Baco
• There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pa
  which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him....
• Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity which stirs within us.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...