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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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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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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

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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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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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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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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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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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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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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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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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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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