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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.
Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
It is as natural to die as to be born.
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.
The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
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