Francis Bacon True Quotations

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Man prefers to think what he prefers to be true

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart....

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.