The reputation of power IS power.

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.

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

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.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.