For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance.

For Prudence, is but Experience; which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against ev…

In these four things, opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotions towards what men fear, and taking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth t…

L'amour-propre est le plus grand de tous les flatteurs.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say that they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politician stays unch…

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.