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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

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The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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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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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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Praise is the reflection of virtue.

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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

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Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

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