Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

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

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.