"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master."
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"A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out."
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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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"But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain."
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"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again."
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"For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed."
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"Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed."
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"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest"
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"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."
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"Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue."
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"To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none."
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"The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one."
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"All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light."
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"Wounds cannot be cured without searching."
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"Great changes are easier than small ones."
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"A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation."
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"The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good."
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"Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience."
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"The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power."
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"Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils"
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