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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

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

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

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Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.

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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

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Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

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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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