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- What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that,…
- By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have…
- Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of…
- It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
- If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.
- That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary,…
- The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their…
- The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given…
- The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
- Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men…
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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
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- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
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- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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