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

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

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.