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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

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Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

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

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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

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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

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I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

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And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

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