It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains, and it is sometimes base; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing. - Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon: "It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains, and it is sometimes base; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing."

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Base	Desire	Dignities	Downfall
Eclipse	Either	Greater	Indignities
Laborious	Least	Liberty	Lose
Mans	Melancholy	Others	Over
Pains	Place	Power	Regress
Rising	Seek	Self	Slippery
Sometimes	Standing	Strange	Thing
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