All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Life is nasty, brutish, and short
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?