In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. Votes: 10
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. Votes: 9
Knowledge is power. Votes: 8
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. Votes: 0
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. Votes: 0
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Votes: 0
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. Votes: 0
It is natural to die as to be born. Votes: 0
The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green. Votes: 0
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. Votes: 0
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Votes: 0
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. Votes: 0
Opportunity makes a thief. Votes: 0
Friends are thieves of time. Votes: 0
Silence is the virtue of fools. Votes: 0
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. Votes: 0
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. Votes: 0
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. Votes: 0
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. Votes: 0
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Votes: 0
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. Votes: 0
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. Votes: 0
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. Votes: 0
Wonder is the seed of knowledge Votes: 0
Riches are for spending. Votes: 0
Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. Votes: 0
By far the best proof is experience. Votes: 0
Always let losers have their words. Votes: 0
Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. Votes: 0
Art is man added to Nature. Votes: 0
Truth is a naked and open daylight Votes: 0
In charity there is no excess. Votes: 0
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. Votes: 0
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. Votes: 0
Praise is the reflection of virtue. Votes: 0
Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside. Votes: 0
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. Votes: 0
Vices of the time; vices of the man. Votes: 0
God loveth the clean. Votes: 0
All will come out in the washing. Votes: 0
For knowledge, too, is itself power. Votes: 0
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. Votes: 0
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. Votes: 0
Revenge is a kind of wild justice. Votes: 0
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. Votes: 0
Mysteries are due to secrecy. Votes: 0
If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. Votes: 0
To know truly is to know by causes. Votes: 0
Man was formed for society. Votes: 0
Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life... Votes: 0
Whatever you can, count. Votes: 0
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment. Votes: 0
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. Votes: 0
Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. Votes: 0
If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted Votes: 0
Time is the greatest innovator. Votes: 0
The wisdom of the ancients. Votes: 0
All colours will agree in the dark. Votes: 0
I believe in deeply ordered chaos Votes: 0
Boldness is a child of ignorance Votes: 0
All bravery stands upon comparisons. Votes: 0
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Votes: 0
Nothing is to be feared but fear. Votes: 0
Reading maketh a full man. Votes: 0
Time is the author of authors. Votes: 0