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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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I would live to study, not study to live.

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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

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There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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