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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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

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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

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Reading maketh a full man.

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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