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