蒲柏曾说弗朗西斯.培根是“人中之俊杰,亦是人中之败类”。培根从剑桥大学毕业之后仕途一帆风顺直到1621年因贿赂罪削官为民,其后半生都在文学和哲学创作中度过。其中最著名的则是《随笔集》,当中作者用细腻的笔触和座右铭式的警句写出人生百态,世间真理。 Pablo once said that Francis Bacon is “the best man in the world, and he is the scum of the people.” After graduating from Cambridge University, Bacon was able to smooth his career until 1621 when he was turned down by bribery and for the rest of his life spent literary and philosophical writing. One of the most famous is the “essays”, in which the author uses delicate brushstrokes and motto-style aphorisms to write about the truth of life and the truth of the world.