Setting Themselves Against Reason, As Often As

Ambition, And Covetousnesse Are Passions That Are Perpetually Incumbent, And Pressing.

A Wise Man Should So Write (though In Words Understood By All Men) That Wise Men Only Should Be Able To Commend Him.

The Original Of All Great And Lasting Societies Consisted Not In The Mutual Good Will Men Had Toward Each Other, But In The Mutual Fear They Had Of Each Other.

The Present Only Has A Being In Nature; Things Past Have A Being In The Memory Only, But Things To Come Have No Being At All; The Future But A Fiction Of The Mind.

For If All Things Were Equally In All Men, Nothing Would Be Prized.