Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.
Francis BaconWe are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis BaconThe light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
Francis BaconIt is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Francis Bacon