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“Certains livres sont à savourer, d'autres à avaler et quelques-uns à mâcher et à digérer.”

Francis Bacon

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“Un homme sage.”

Francis Bacon

“Se venger, c'est se mettre au niveau de l'ennemi; pardonner, c'est le dépasser.”

Francis Bacon

“Milord, il était dans ma destinée de finir comme Pline l'Ancien, qui mourut pour s’être trop approché du”

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“[…]Le savoir dérivé d’Aristote, s'il est soustrait au libre examen, ne montera pas plus haut que le savoir qu' Aristote avait.”

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“La science de l'homme est la mesure de sa puissance, parce qu'ignorer la cause, c'est ne pouvoir produire l'effet. On ne triomphe de la nature qu’en lui obéissant; et ce qui, dans la spéculation, porte le nom de cause, devient une règle dans la pratique.”

Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Novum Organum (1620), traduction de 1857

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“Ce ne sont pas des ailes qu'il faut à notre esprit mais des semelles de plomb.”

Francis Bacon

“On ne demande point au”

Francis Bacon

(1620), traduction de 1857

“Le médecin (…), pour guérir la maladie, tue le malade.”

Francis Bacon

Cure the disease, and kill the patient.
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“Les empiriques, semblables aux”

Francis Bacon

(1620), traduction de 1857

“Les empiriques, semblables aux fourmis, ne savent qu’amasser et user; les rationalistes, semblables aux araignées, font des toiles qu’ils tirent d’eux même; le procédé de l’abeille tient le milieu entre ces deux : elle recueille ses matériaux sur les fleurs des jardins et des champs; mais elle les transforme et les distille par une vertu qui lui est propre : c’est l’image du véritable travail de la philosophie, qui ne se fie pas aux seules forces de l’esprit humain et n’y prend même pas son principal appui. (…) C’est pourquoi il y a tout à espérer d’une alliance intime et sacrée de ces deux facultés expérimentale et rationnelle; alliance qui ne s’est pas encore rencontrée.”

Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Novum Organum (1620), traduction de 1857

“On ne demande point au syllogisme les principes de la science; on lui demande vainement les lois intermédiaires, parce qu’ils est incapable de saisir la nature dans sa subtilité; il lie l’esprit, mais non les choses.”

Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Novum Organum (1620), traduction de 1857

Francis Bacon: Citations en anglais

“Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted”
Primum quaerite bona animi; caetera aut aderunt, aut non oberunt

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book II, xxxi
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“Men in great place are thrice servants,—servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Great Place
Essays (1625)

“Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Truth
Essays (1625)

“To God, truly, the Giver and Architect of Forms, and it may be to the angels and higher intelligences, it belongs to have an affirmative knowledge of forms immediately, and from the first contemplation. But this assuredly is more than man can do, to whom it is granted only to proceed at first by negatives, and at last to end in affirmatives, after exclusion has been exhausted.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism XV
Novum Organum (1620), Book II

“Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Wisdom for a Man's Self
Essays (1625)

“Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.”

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De Augmentis Scientiarum, Book II, Antitheta (1623)

“It is manifest that there is no danger at all in the proportion or quantity of knowledge, how large soever, lest it should make it swell or out-compass itself; no, but it is merely the quality of knowledge, which, be it in quantity more or less, if it be taken without the true corrective thereof, hath in it some nature of venom or malignity, and some effects of that venom, which is ventosity or swelling. This corrective spice, the mixture whereof maketh knowledge so sovereign, is charity, which the Apostle immediately addeth to the former clause; for so he saith, “Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.””

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book I
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Adversity
Essays (1625)

“But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Friendship
Essays (1625)

“Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Praise
Essays (1625)

“The obliteration of the evil hath been practised by two means, some kind of redemption or expiation of that which is past, and an inception or account de novo for the time to come. But this part seemeth sacred and religious, and justly; for all good moral philosophy (as was said) is but a handmaid to religion.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book II, xxii, 14
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Honor and Reputation
Essays (1625)

“When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.”

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Letter of Expostulation to Coke, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The natural philosophy of Democritus and some others, who did not suppose a mind or reason in the frame of things, but attributed the form thereof able to maintain itself to infinite essays or proofs of nature, which they term fortune, seemeth to me… in particularities of physical causes more real and better inquired than that of Aristotle and Plato; whereof both intermingled final causes, the one as a part of theology, and the other as a part of logic, which were the favourite studies respectively of both those persons. Not because those final causes are not true, and worthy to be inquired, being kept within their own province; but because their excursions into the limits of physical causes hath bred a vastness and solitude in that tract.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book VII, 7
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism 111
Novum Organum (1620), Book I

“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.”

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Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral (1597), XXIX: "Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates."

“So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Ambition
Essays (1625)

“Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.”

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Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pan;" which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Cunning
Essays (1625)

“It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Seeming Wise
Essays (1625)

“Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book II
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“Neither did the dispensation of God vary in the times after our Saviour came into the world; for our Saviour himself did first show His power to subdue ignorance, by His conference with the priests and doctors of the law, before He showed His power to subdue nature by His miracles. And the coming of this Holy Spirit was chiefly figured and expressed in the similitude and gift of tongues, which are but vehicula scientiæ.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism 7
Novum Organum (1620), Book I

“It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man, so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death; and therefore, death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupieth it.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Death
Essays (1625)

“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Adversity
Essays (1625)

“What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Truth
Essays (1625)

“Affected dispatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be. It is like that, which the physicians call predigestion, or hasty digestion; which is sure to fill the body full of crudities, and secret seeds of diseases. Therefore measure not dispatch, by the times of sitting, but by the advancement of the business.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Dispatch
Essays (1625)

“Deformed persons are commonly even with nature; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection; and so they have their revenge of nature.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Deformity
Essays (1625)

“The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
Essays (1625)

“I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.”

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On being charged by Parliament with corruption in office (1621)

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