Famous Quotes / Francis Bacon
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."
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 |
Unto |