indignities quotes

   The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and theregressiseithera downfall, orat least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing: Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.11,'Of Great Place'. The Latin is taken from Cicero's Familiar Letters, and translates as:'When you are not what you were, there is no reason to live.'

Chafing in action when his nature yearned to act, conscious of indignitiesreal and imagined,Johnsonwent through three years of slow burn.

-Theodore H(arold) White
Of Lyndon B Johnson as John F Kennedy'sVice President. Quoted in Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr AThousand Days (1965).