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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.
Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.
Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest
If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.
Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.