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A good conscience is a continual feast.

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

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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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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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Money is a great servant but a bad master.

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What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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