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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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It is by testing that we discern fine gold.

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O mathematicians, throw light on this error.

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Necessity is the mistress and guardian of nature.

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He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

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Every instrument requires to be made by experience.

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Nothing is written as the result of new researches.

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We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

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Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master.

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What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.

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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

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Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.

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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

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He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.

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We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...

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Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.

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Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.

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Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

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It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

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Love, Fear, and Esteem, — Write these on three stones.

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Movement will cease before we are weary of being useful.

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Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the Dead.

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Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.

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Swimming upon water teaches men how birds do upon the air.

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The span of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

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There will be many which will increase in their destruction.

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Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

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Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

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