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Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

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

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Knowledge is power.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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Opportunity makes a thief.

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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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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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

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