There is some good in public envy, whereas in private there is none; for public envy is as an ostracism that eclipseth men when they grow too great; and therefore it is a bridle also to great ones to keep within bounds.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Francis Bacon Quotes

There is some good in public envy, whereas in private there is none; for public envy is as an ostracism that eclipseth men when they grow too great;...

There is some good in public envy, whereas in private there is none; for public envy is as an ostracism that eclipseth men when they grow too great;...

There is some good in public envy, whereas in private there is none; for public envy is as an ostracism that eclipseth men when they grow too great;...

There is some good in public envy, whereas in private there is none; for public envy is as an ostracism that eclipseth men when they grow too great;...