It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
Francis BaconFor friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Francis BaconFor many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.
Francis BaconPeople have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon