"Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all."
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"The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk."
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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
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"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies."
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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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"For knowledge, too, is itself power."
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"The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction."
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"He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god."
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"We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom."
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"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."
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"There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise."
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"Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see 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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"Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way."
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"I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset."
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"We only have our nervous system to paint."
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"If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
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"I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know."
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"I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks."
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"In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness."
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"In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man."
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