When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. – Francis Bacon
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. – Francis Bacon

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. – Francis Bacon
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. – Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. – Edgar Allan Poe