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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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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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Art is man added to Nature.

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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

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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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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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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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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

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

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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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