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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

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Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

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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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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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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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