By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.
The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.