Men ought to know that in the theatre of human life it is only for Gods and angels to be spectators.
Empiricism, scientific method
Essays, Civil and Moral: Of Simulation and Dissimulation
1625
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"It is a sad fate to be a man of sense, in a country of fools."
Shocking"The Idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words, …"
Controversial"Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights."
Shocking"For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man."
Strange & Unusual"For good and evil, there is no place for neutrality."
Shocking