Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. – Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. – Francis Bacon
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. – Francis Bacon
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. – Francis Bacon