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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
People prefer to believe what they want to be true.
No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.
Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.
He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.