A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.