Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
From Francis Bacon
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
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