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Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.

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A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

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If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

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

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A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

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