Francis Bacon: Ask counsel of both times—of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Ask counsel of both times—of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter ti — Francis Bacon

Ask counsel of both times—of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Francis Bacon

Source: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 3.0). Quotations may be subject to their authors' rights and may be shown in translation.

Wisdom is only knowledge well applied. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Utiliumque sagax rerum et divina futuri. — Sagacious in making useful discoveries. Horace
Andrew Harvey , Teachings of Rumi — Rumi
And this I know: whether the one True Light, Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me — Omar Khayyám
Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as — Arthur Schopenhauer
Bringing reality to life has at once been the problem and the promise of pictori — Arthur C. Danto
Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully sati — John Milton
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not on — Arthur Schopenhauer
Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship — Seneca
So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers. — Thomas Doubleday
On dit quelquefois, le sens commun est fort rare... — Voltaire
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. — Michel de Montaigne