Francis Bacon Quote

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.


Of Wisdom for a Man's Self. - Essays (1625)


It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.