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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

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

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I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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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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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

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Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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