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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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All colours will agree in the dark.

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Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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Knowledge is power.

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Great changes are easier than small ones.

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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

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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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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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