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" Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. "

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Knowledge Is Power

" He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. "

" The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. "

" Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. "

" Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. "

" A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it. "

" The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. "

" Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. "

" In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. "

" We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. "

" Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. "

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

" Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon. "

" God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. "

" Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. "

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

" Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. "

" The worst men often give the best advice. "

" Friends are thieves of time. "

" A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. "

" There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. "

" I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. "

" If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. "

" Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. "

" There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. "

" The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. "

" Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. "

" They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. "