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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
Truth
"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
Justice
"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
Experience
"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."
Time
"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
God
"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
Life
"The remedy is worse than the disease."
Moderation
"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
Fortune
"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
Death
"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
Fortune
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