For a man's private fortune it is good to have an eye to his own affairs; for a commonwealth, to have an eye to its neighbours.
Empiricism, scientific method
Essays, Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
1625
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"It is a thing that ever proveth, that a man's fortune is the fruit of his own virtue."
Strange & Unusual"For there is no bond of society but in knowledge."
Strange & Unusual"Certainly, there be, that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage, to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting."
Controversial"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."
Controversial"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
Controversial