The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.