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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

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

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

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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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Opportunity makes a thief.

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The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

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