It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.

No more like together than is chalke to coles.

If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties.

The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.