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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

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

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

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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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Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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