Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion
Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion.
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