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" Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. "

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

" Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. "

" It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. "

" Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. "

" Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. "

" When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. "

" A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. "

" Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. "

" What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. "

" There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. "

" There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. "

" Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks. "

" Rebellions of the belly are the worst. "

" Acorns were good until bread was found. "

" God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. "

" The place of justice is a hallowed place. "

" The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. "

" Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. "

" We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. "

" Opportunity makes a thief. "

" Science is but an image of the truth. "

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

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

" Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. "

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

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

" Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. "