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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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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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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

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

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The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so

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You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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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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