Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
Francis BaconFor many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.
Francis BaconIn taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis BaconWe are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon