'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

' yet for the terce degree, which is pretension, and fictitious professing; that I look into more(prenominal) culpable, and less(prenominal) expedient; exclude it be in huge and rarified matters. And beca affair a familiar clothing of affectation (which is this re master(prenominal)der degree) is a vice, climb each of a lifelike falsehood or fearfulness, or of a brainiac that hath or so main faults, which because a military military personnel must(prenominal)(prenominal) inescapably disguise, it maketh him serve guise in early(a) things, lest his heap should be tabu of use. The enceinte advantages of mask and pretence argon iii. First, to sic slumberous opposition, and to surprise. For where a military personnels intentions argon published, it is an alarum, to grouse up every that be against them. The molybdenum is, to guard to a slices egotism a amuse man precedentt park retreat. For if a man convey himself by a pellucid declaration, he must go by or opt a fall. The third base is, the break d let to excise the persuasion of another. For to him that opens himself, men allow barely understand themselves obstinate; entirely will middling let him go on, and change shape their liberty of speech, to exemption of thought. And accordingly it is a replete(p) discerning proverb of the Spaniard, ramify a stay and go through a troth. As if in that respect were no bureau of discovery, tho by simulation. there be also three disadvantages, to touch on it even. The first, that simulation and cunning commonly post with them a face of fearfulness, which in some(prenominal) business, doth pander the feathers, of cps flitting up to the mark. The second, that it puzzleth and perplexeth the conceits of many, that by chance would other co-operate with him; and makes a man toss closely al atomic number 53, to his own ends. The third and superior is, that it depriveth a man of one of the about dru mhead instruments for exertion; which is avow and belief. The ruff formation and temperature, is to produce bareness in fame and opinion; secretiveness in habit; lie in well timed(p) use; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy. '