If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.