Famous Quotes / Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon: "For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced."
Baseness | Belly | Columbine | Conditions |
Envy | Evil | Exactly | Except |
Forms | Going | Innocence | Join |
Lieth | Lubricity | Natures | Open |
Possible | Rest | Serpent | Serpentine |
Sting | Unfenced | Upon | Virtue |
Volubility | Wisdom | Without |