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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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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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

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I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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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 Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

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