1615: Francis Walsingham
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/01/20
“Knowledge is never too dear.”
“Tell a lie, and find a truth.”
“Speak no more than you may safely retreat from without danger, or fairly go through with without opposition.”
“Video et taceo.”
“A habit of secrecy is policy and virtue.”
“To him men’s faces spoke as much as their tongues.”
“He must observe the joints and flexures of affairs.”
“I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man.”
“I confess… I have curiously searched out all the practices against the same.”
“There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than security.”
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