All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
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.