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.
From Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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