Quotes by Bacon, Francis

God's first creature, which was light. >>

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a littl >>

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good co >>

Quotations about Deception

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less e >>

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified. >>

The art of pleasing is the art of deception. >>

The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

Bacon, Francis