By far the best proof is experience.
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Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
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Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
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Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
(To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
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A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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I have taken all knowledge to by my province.
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Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
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In charity there is no excess.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom
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Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.
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The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
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