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" The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. "

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" Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. "

" The place of justice is a hallowed place. "

" The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. "

" Opportunity makes a thief. "

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

" Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. "

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

" He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. "

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

" Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. "

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

" Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. "

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

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

" Knowledge and human power are synonymous. "

" There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little. "

" Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. "

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

" As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. "

" The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. "

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