35. The full title of the translation, first printed in 1638 in the collected edition Operum Civilium et Moralium, is Sermones Fideles, sive Interiora Rerum (Faithful Discourses or the Insides of Things).

36. See aphorism 12 from the Novum Organum, p. 280-81 below.

37. Of Studies, p. 209 (tasting, swallowing and chewing books), Of Envy, p. 83 (envy irradiating from the eye), Of Judicature, p. 222 (the litigation), Of Ambition, p. 173 (ambition as a malign, inward humour), Of Usury, p. 184 and Of Empire, p. 119 (merchants as vena porta, the gate vein in the body politic), Of Truth, p. 62 (lies sinking and settling into the mind).