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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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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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Opportunity makes a thief.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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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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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

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You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

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