>> Not well known to me. What does it mean?
>
> Essentially boils down, I think, to "A man prefers what he believes to be
> true".

Quite. I believe it was Sir Francis Bacon who wrote that.

(The translation I saw was "for what a man wishes to be true, that he 
more readily believes".)

> Google Translate can now handle latin, but "poteous" it doesn't seem to
> know.

I probably spelt it wrong. (Thinking about it, it might be "potious", 
I'm not sure. Same root as "potestus", I think.)

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