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Man was formed for society.

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The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

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Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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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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States are great engines moving slowly.

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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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