I hold every man a debtor to his profession. – Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon
I hold every man a debtor to his profession. – Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both. – Francis Bacon
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. – Francis Bacon
It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. – René Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637 (translated)