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.

By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.