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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 gene...more

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

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It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of those who had paid their vows as having escaped sh...more

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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though rel...more

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Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it… There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s observation, what he finds ...more

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We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is not possible to join serpentine wisd...more

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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

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Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and ab...more

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.