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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

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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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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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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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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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In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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