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We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

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Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

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Riches are for spending.

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear.

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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

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

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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

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One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

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