Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
— Francis Bacon
Famous Quotes
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— Francis Bacon
Famous Quotes
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
— Francis Bacon
Friendship
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Nay, number (itself) in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as Virgil saith) it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.