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"We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
Adversity
"Science is but an image of the truth."
Science
"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."
Friendship
"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
Truth
"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."
Opportunity
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."
Man
"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."
Nature
"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."
Enemy
"Knowledge and human power are synonymous."
Power
"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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