And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.
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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.Francis Bacon
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
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Riches are for spending.
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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