The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.
For knowledge, too, is itself power.
I would live to study, not study to live.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.
When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God
The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.
What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?
Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.
Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.
the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
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