The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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