of Truth

“but it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men’s thoughts , that doth bring lies in favour; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself."

"But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake before."

Francis Bacon.