If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

No noble thing can be done without risks.