Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.

As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short