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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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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

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Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

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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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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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