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Money is like muck, not good except it is be spread.
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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
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Mysteries are due to secrecy.
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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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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
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Nature is commanded by obeying her.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
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Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
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New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.
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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
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No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
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No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
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Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.
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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
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Nothing doch more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Essays (1625) Of cunning
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