Francis Bacon

Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret.

Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.

Lucid intervals and happy pauses.

Aristotle (…) a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.

It is not the pleasure of curiosity, nor the quiet of resolution, nor the raising of the spirit, nor victory of wit, nor faculty of speech (…) that are the true ends of knowledge (…), but it is a restitution and reinvesting, in great part, …

Nay, number (itself) in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as Virgil saith) it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. Variants: Scientia ipsa potentia est. Knowledge itself is power. Scientia potestas est. / Scientia potentia est. / Scientia est potentia. Knowledge is power.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

I have taken all knowledge to be my province