Scientia potentia est man which constitute power; in this list, "sciences" or "the sciences" are given a minor position: In the English version this passage reads as thus: On a later work, "De Corpore" (1655), also written in Latin, Hobbes expanded the same idea: In Jean Hampton, "Hobbes and the social contract tradition" (1988), Hampton indicates that this quote is 'after Bacon' and in a footnote, that 'Hobbes was Bacon's secretary as a young man and had philosophical discussions with him (Aubrey 1898, 331). The closest expression in Bacon's works is, perhaps, the expression ""scientia potestas est"", found in his "" (1597), which
Et facere et pati fortia Romanum est Et facere et pati fortia Romanum est Et facere et pati fortia Romanum est is a Latin phrase meaning "Acting and suffering bravely is the attribute of a Roman." Its comes from Livy's "Ab Urbe condita" 2, 12, 9. According to legend, a certain Mucius Cordus attempted to kill an Etruscan king Lars Porsena, who was besieging Rome. When the Etruscans caught him, he said “"Romanus sum civis"” ("I am a Roman citizen") and continued with "Et facere et pati fortia Romanum est". To prove his point, he held his right hand without flinching in a fire that the king