Francis Bacon Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

  Francis Bacon

  Power, Men, Self

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.459

• The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Power, Wit

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1841). “The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England”, p.534

• Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

  Francis Bacon

  Power, Too Much, Authority

• The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

  Francis Bacon

  Fall, Knowledge, Angel

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