REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Weitere Zitate von Francis Bacon
Zum Autor"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
"Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread."
"Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love."
"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."
"The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room."