The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.
Francis BaconI loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.
Francis BaconThere is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.
Francis BaconAtheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Francis Bacon