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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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All bravery stands upon comparisons.

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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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