It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.