“I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.”

— Francis Bacon, An Essay on Death

About Francis Bacon

1561 – 1626

English philosopher and statesman, author of the "Essays" and "Novum Organum".

“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”

“We have to accept death; it makes life possible.”

“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”

“Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.”