Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

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

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

Covenants without swords are but words.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.