Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Of Studies.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.[168:1]

Of Vicissitude of Things.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Proposition touching Amendment of Laws.

Knowledge is power.—Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.[168:2]

Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.[168:3]

Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100.

When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.