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

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

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