Libels and licentious discourses against the state, when they are frequent and open; and in like sort, false news running up and down to the disadvantage of the state, and hastily embraced; are amongst the signs of troubles.
Sir Francis Bacon, Essays (“Of Sedition and Troubles”)
"I take goodness in this sense, the affecting of the weal of men, which
is that the Grecians call _philanthropia_; and the word humanity, as
it is used, is a little too light to express it. Goodness I call the
habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This, of all virtues
and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of
the Deity; and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing,
no better than a kind of vermin."
Sir Francis Bacon (1612)
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