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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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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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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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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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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

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

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