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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

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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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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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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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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

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Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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