Quote by Francis Bacon
By indignities men come to dignities. - Francis Bacon

By indignities men come to dignities. – Francis Bacon

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. – Francis Bacon

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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other mens imperfections, and conceal your own. – George Bernard Shaw

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. – Plato

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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. – Walter Lippmann

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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men. – Epicurus

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