Famous quotes from "Bacon's Essays"

· Knowledge is power. --- Bacon

· Miracles always appear without fear. --- Bacon

· Comfort and contentment can easily become a breeding ground for corruption and depravity. --- Bacon

· Success and virtue are two good measures of life and career. --- Bacon

· Knowledge itself does not tell people how to use it. The method of use is outside the book. --- Bacon

· Being indecisive and without ideals is a sad mentality. --- Bacon

· No matter how angry you are, don't do anything irreversible. --- Bacon

· Talent and virtue are like gems, best set with plain things. --- "Collected Works of Bacon"

· People should behave like their clothes, which should not be too tight or too dressy, but should be loose enough to facilitate work and movement. --- "Collected Works of Francis Bacon"

· The greatest trust between people is the trust in words. --- "Collected Works of Francis Bacon"

· The pursuit of speed is one of the greatest dangers in doing things. --- "Collected Works of Francis Bacon"

· Luck is not without many fears and worries; misfortune is not without many comforts and hopes. --- "Collected Works of Bacon's Essays"

· Virtue is like a famous incense. After burning or pressing, its fragrance becomes stronger. For example, good fortune can best reveal bad virtues, while misfortune can best reveal virtues. --- Bacon

· In terms of beauty, the beauty of appearance is higher than the beauty of color, and the beauty of elegant and well-formed movements is higher than the beauty of appearance. --- Bacon: "On Beauty"

· Virtue is like a gem, which is more gorgeous when set against a simple background. Similarly, a person who is not luxuriously dressed, but dignified, serious and virtuous is awe-inspiring. --- Bacon

· Some old people look very cute because their style is elegant and beautiful...and although some young people have beauty, they do not deserve to be praised because of their lack of graceful cultivation. --- Bacon

· Those who show off are despised by wise men, envied by foolish people, and flattered by flatterers. At the same time, they are also slaves of the words they boast about. --- "Collected Works of Francis Bacon"

· People who gossip are often delusional. --- Bacon

Best passages from "Bacon's Essays"

Reading is enough for pleasure, enough for gambling, and enough for talents. His joyful mood is most seen when he is alone in seclusion; his richness is most seen when he talks loudly; his talent is most seen when he is dealing with the world and judging things. Although a skilled person can deal with the details separately or judge the details one by one, but when it comes to overall planning and overall planning, he is the only one who is willing to learn and think deeply. If you spend too much time reading, you will become lazy; if you have too much literary talent, you will be pretentious; if you rely solely on articles to decide things, it will be the old school mentality. Reading makes up for the deficiencies of nature, and experience makes up for the deficiencies of reading. Innate talents are built up like natural flowers and plants. After reading, you know how to prune and graft them; but as shown in the book, if you don't use experience to model it, it will be too big and useless. Skilled elders despise reading, ignorant people envy reading, but wise people use reading. However, books do not tell others about their usefulness. The wisdom of using books is not in the book, but outside the book. It can all be obtained by observation. When reading, you should not deliberately criticize the author, do not believe everything in the book, and do not just look for chapters and excerpts, but should think carefully. Some books can be tasted, some can be swallowed, and a few need to be chewed and digested. In other words, some people only need to read part of it, some people only need to dabble in general, and a few need to read it in full. When reading, you need to concentrate on it and work tirelessly. You can also ask someone to read the book for you and extract the summary, but only if the subject matter is of minor importance or the value is not high. Otherwise, the refining of the book will be like distilling water, which will be bland and tasteless.

Reading makes you enriched, discussion makes you witty, and taking notes makes you accurate. Therefore, those who do not often take notes must have a strong memory, those who do not often discuss must be naturally smart, and those who do not often read must be deceived and skillful in order to be able to show their knowledge from ignorance. Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people smart, mathematics makes people thoughtful, science makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and the study of logic and rhetoric makes people eloquent: everything learned becomes character. If a person's intelligence is blocked, there is no need to read appropriate books to make it smoother. Just like all diseases in the body, they can be cured by appropriate exercises.

Rolling a ball is good for the testicles and kidneys, archery is good for the chest and lungs, slow walking is good for the intestines and stomach, riding is good for the mind, and so on. If the intellect is not concentrated, it can be taught to read mathematics, and the performance questions must be concentrated, and if there is a slight distraction, it must be repeated; if it is not possible to distinguish differences, it can be taught to read scholastic philosophy, because this generation is full of fault-finding people; if it is not good at seeking common ground, it is not good at uniting. One thing can prove another thing by reading the lawyer's case file. In this way, every defect in the mind can be cured by special medicine.