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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

Francis Bacon
Friendship, True Friend, Lying

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Francis Bacon
Truth, Lying, Inspirational Life
Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.511

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

Francis Bacon
Lying, Hypocrisy, Lasts

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Francis Bacon
Lying, Men, Vices
Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.13

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Francis Bacon
Lying, Deceit, Substance
Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.538

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

Francis Bacon
Hurt, Lying, Ignorance
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Francis Bacon
Lying, Light, Triumph
Francis Bacon (1852). “The essays or counsels civil and moral and wisdom of the Ancients by Francis (Bacon) Lord Verulam: Edited by B[asil] Montagu”, p.2

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

Francis Bacon
Lying, Illustration, Mystery

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Francis Bacon
Truth, Lying, Adventure
Francis Bacon (2012). “Complete Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

Francis Bacon
Lying, Taken, Men
Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

Francis Bacon
Confused, Lying, Roots
Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 4”, p.49

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

Francis Bacon
Lying, Men, Faces
Francis Bacon (1873). “The Essays of Lord Bacon”, p.6

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