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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

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If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.

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Friends are thieves of time.

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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

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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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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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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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