the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.