Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
By far the best proof is experience.
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.