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The worst men often give the best advice.

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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

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