By Francis Bacon, 1597, eBook Made by Pennsylvania State University

"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."

Francis Bacon offers his opinion on many different topics in these essays, ranging from life and death to love and anger. Full of wit and wisdom, the essays are the perfect example of common sense. Though short pieces, they are thought provoking and a great pleasure to read.

Francis Bacon: An English politician, scientist, and author of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; one of the leaders of the Renaissance in England.

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Useful Links:

• Works by Francis Bacon at Project Gutenberg
• Francis Bacon Books
• Online editions of Bacon's works
• Novum Organum Online
• Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning
• Essays on the English Renaissance
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Baconianism
• Rictor Norton, "Sir Francis Bacon" quotes excised passages of Sir Simonds D'Ewes
• Quotations Book - Francis Bacon
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
• The Twickenham Museum - Sir Francis Bacon
• Henry Wotton employed by Bacon's intelligence system
• Francis Bacon Research Trust - Studies of Bacon's connections to the Rosicrucians, Freemasonry, Shakespeare
• A simplified version of the New Organon
• Francis Bacon at Thoemmes Continuum

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