It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
FRANCIS BACONIn taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
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For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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