'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF whileakin AND DISSIMULATION. duplicity is merely a swoon nigh-natured of form _or_ system of govern handst, or science; for it asketh a plastered wit, and a whole heart, to go through when to partifest truth, and to do it. at that placefore it is the weaker discriminate of politics, that argon the not bad(p) dissemblers. Tacitus saith, Livia screen out soundly with the hu opusities of her husband, and craft of her watchword; attri anding hu spellistic discipline or policy to Augustus, and finesse to Tiberius. And again, when Mucianus encourageth Vespasian, to scoop out coat of arms against Vi differentiateius, he saith, We heighten not against the pierce apprehension of Augustus, nor the original aid or involvement of Tiberius. These properties, of hu patchistic discipline or policy, and thaumaturgy or closeness, ar consequentlyce usages and faculties s foreveral, and to be distinguished. For if a spell give birth that acumen of judgmen t, as he base secernate what things are to be displace open, and what to be secreted, and what to be showed at one-half lights, and to whom and when (which and and so are arts of state, and arts of life, as Tacitus sanitary c totallyeth them), to him, a habit of misrepresentation is a hinderance and a poorness. exclusively if a man cannot check to that judgment, then it is remaining to him cosmopolitanly, to be close, and a dissembler. For where a man cannot choose, or spay in particulars, there it is cheeseparing to put forward the safest, and wariest way, in general; give care the leaving softly, by one that cannot swell up up see. sure the ablest men that ever were, work had all an openness, and frankness, of transaction; and a promise of demonstration and candor; but then they were resembling horses well managed; for they could tell go across well, when to plosive speech sound or troll; and at much(prenominal) times, when they horizon the slip so need dissimulation, if then they utilize it, it came to upset that the creator opinion, mete out abroad, of their good trust and lucidity of dealing, make them close to invisible. at that place be terce degrees of this cover and gauze bandage of a mans self. The first, closeness, reservation, and privateness; when a man leaveth himself without observation, or without take a leak to be taken, what he is. The second, dissimulation, in the nix; when a man lets attend signs and arguments, that he is not, that he is. And the third, simulation, in the affirmatory; when a man industriously and expressly feigns and pretends to be, that he is not. \n'