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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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Money is a great servant but a bad master.
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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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Ipsa scientia potestas est.Knowledge itself is power.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils
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We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. 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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