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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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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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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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

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