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Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.
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Science is but an image of the truth.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Friends are thieves of time.
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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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Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
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Science is but an image of the truth.