Francis Bacon
“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
“Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.”
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
“Knowledge is power.”