Quote by Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Summary

This quote suggests that virtue, like a valuable gemstone, is most beautiful when displayed in its simplest and truest form. Just as a rich stone doesn't require elaborate embellishments to enhance its value, virtue doesn't need unnecessary complexity or adornments. Authentic virtue shines on its own, conveying its intrinsic worth. Instead of trying to embellish or complicate virtue, it is best appreciated when presented in its unadorned and straightforward nature, allowing its inherent goodness to take center stage.

Topics

By Francis Bacon

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

Stanley Kubrick

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence a

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

Walter Lippmann

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to f

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead -- the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

People travel for the same reason they collect works of art:

People travel for the same reason they collect works of art: because the best people do it

Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting--

Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping pills to drive away their terrors so that sleep would come, and their terrors were so tame and domestic: the job, the money, what the teacher will think if I can't get Jennie nicer clothes, does my wife still love me, who are my friends. They were pallid compared to the fears every child lies cheek and jowl with in his dark bed, with no one to confess to in hope of perfect understanding but another child. There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the bed or in the cellar every night, the thing which leers and capers and threatens just beyond the point where vision will reach. The same lonely battle must be fought night after night and the only cure is the eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called adulthood.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meetin

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Don't think you are wiser, everyone has his/her fool part

Don't think you are wiser, everyone has his/her fool part

Adekunle Adeyemi

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides on

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Deception/lying

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am fla

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting s

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through.

John Oldham, Satire upon a Print

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that'

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.