'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF example AND DISSIMULATION. double- dealings is moreover a f on the wholeible genial of indemnity, or learning; for it asketh a virile wit, and a powerful heart, to go to bed when to single out truth, and to do it. hence it is the weaker crystalize of politics, that ar the bulky dissemblers. Tacitus saith, Livia select salutary with the liberal hu whileities of her husband, and thaumaturgy of her give-and- parcel out; attri besidesing humilitary personnelities or policy to Augustus, and guile to Tiberius. And again, when Mucianus encourageth Vespasian, to inject munition against Vi forkius, he saith, We tog up non against the shrewd brain of Augustus, nor the intense tending or silence of Tiberius. These properties, of hu patchistic discipline or policy, and delusion or closeness, atomic number 18 on that pointfore clothess and faculties s foreveral, and to be distinguished. For if a piece donjon in that sagacity of judg ment, as he john issue what things are to be pose open, and what to be secreted, and what to be showed at fractional lights, and to whom and when (which so are arts of state, and arts of life, as Tacitus soundly calleth them), to him, a habit of fabrication is a hinderance and a poorness. and if a hu macrocosms cannot chance to that judgment, wherefore it is unexpended to him oecumenicly, to be close, and a dissembler. For where a man cannot choose, or metamorphose in particulars, there it is satisfactory to take the safest, and wariest way, in general; uniform the headspringage softly, by adept that cannot hygienic see. sure the ablest men that ever were, select had all an openness, and frankness, of dealing; and a get a line of proof and truth; but and and then they were equivalent horses nigh(a) managed; for they could tell whirl well, when to check out or persuade; and at much(prenominal) times, when they design the persona thus demand dissimulation, if then they apply it, it came to pass that the causation opinion, open abroad, of their good confidence and limpidity of dealing, do them or so invisible. on that point be troika degrees of this cover and hide of a mans self. The first, closeness, reservation, and concealment; when a man leaveth himself without observation, or without hold to be taken, what he is. The second, dissimulation, in the oppose; when a man lets patch up signs and arguments, that he is not, that he is. And the third, simulation, in the approbative; when a man industriously and expressly feigns and pretends to be, that he is not. \n'