3 Francis Bacon Quotes on Fame

Francis Bacon quotes on fame

99. Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.

138. Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.

139. Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.