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Cure the disease and kill the patient.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

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Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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In charity there is no excess.

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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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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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Praise is the reflection of virtue.

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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

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