That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

Some promises and time disappoint us.

The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.