"Fear and I were born twins."

"When a man's discourse beginneth not with definitions, it is a sign that he gropes in the dark."

"And from this, that every man desires his own good, it followeth, that every man desires to preserve himself."

"For every man, that is not an idiot, knoweth that there is a God; yet few there be that think there is but one, or that he is eternal, or incomprehensible, or that he governs the world; but they imagi…"

"For what is there in the world, that is not obnoxious to the change of time, and the violence of men?"