Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

He loves little who loves by rule.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.