Francis Bacon on Courage
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Francis Bacon, catalogued under courage, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Francis Bacon, entry #87774: "Nay, number in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be."
Attributed to Francis Bacon, entry #61314: "To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles:Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger."
7 Quotes by Francis Bacon on Courage
"Nay, number in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be."
"To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles:Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger."
"Nay, number (itself) in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as Virgil saith) it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be."
"Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences."
"For justs, and tourneys, and barriers; the glories of them are chiefly in the chariots, wherein the challengers make their entry; especially if they be drawn with strange beasts: as lions, bears, camels, and the like; or in the devices of their entrance; or in the bravery of their liveries; or in the goodly furniture of their horses and armor. But enough of these toys."
"So are there some vain persons, that whatsoever goeth alone, or moveth upon greater means, if they have never so little hand in it, they think it is they that carry it. They that are glorious, must needs be factious; for all bravery stands upon comparisons. They must needs be violent, to make good their own vaunts. Neither can they be secret, and therefore not effectual; but according to the French proverb, Beaucoup de bruit, peu de fruit; Much bruit little fruit."
"There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore, those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent. Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business. What first?—Boldness: what second and third?—Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness, far inferior to other parts; but, nevertheless, it doth fascinate, and bind hand and foot those that are either shallow in judgment or weak in courage, which are the greatest part, yea, and prevaileth with wise man at weak times."