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- The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. — Michel de Montaigne
- There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. — Xun Zi
- Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. — Francis Bacon
- When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. — Francis Bacon
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon