It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.

Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.