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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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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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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.

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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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