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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

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The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

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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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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

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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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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

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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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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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