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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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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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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

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The worst men often give the best advice.

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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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All colours will agree in the dark.

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

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