It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. – Francis Bacon
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. – Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. – Francis Bacon
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. – Francis Bacon
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a mans nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. – Francis Bacon