Francis Bacon Quotes on Fame
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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.
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Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.