“the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.”

“Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.”

“Ipsa scientia potestas est.Knowledge itself is power.”

“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent; his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil. For without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced. Nay, an honest man can do no good upon those that are wicked, to reclaim them, without the help of the knowledge of evil.”

“A Man must make his opportunity,as oft as find it ”

“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.”

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”