"We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do."
― Francis Bacon
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Men
― Francis Bacon
More From Francis Bacon
- "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."
- "The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
- "When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
More In Men
- "In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task – of taking them to account for what they’ve done – and this is especially true in the cultural realm."― Thomas Frank
- "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."― Robert E. Howard
- "The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."― Samuel Johnson