For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself

Where there is no common power, there is no law

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.