You have your face bare; I am all face.

I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.