A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.