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ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 



As they who first derive honor to 

 their family are commonly more wor 

 thy than those who succeed them, so 

 innovations generally excel imitations. 



An obstinate adherence to customs 

 is as turbulent a thing as innovation. 



Since things of their own course 

 change for the worse, if they are not 

 by prudence altered for the better, 

 what end can there be of the ill? 



The slaves of custom are the sport 



of time. 



For JUSTICE 



of time, which brings about new things 

 so quietly as to be almost impercepti 

 ble ? 



Things that happen unexpected are 

 less agreeable to those they benefit 

 and more afflicting to those they 

 injure. 



Against 



Power and policy are but the ap 

 pendages of justice; for if justice 

 could be otherwise executed, there 

 were no need of them. 



It is owing to justice that man to 

 man is a god, not a wolf. 



Though justice cannot extirpate 

 vice, it keeps it under. 



If justice consist in doing to an 

 other what we would have done to 

 ourselves, then mercy is justice. 



If every one must receive his due, 

 then surely mortals must receive 

 pardon. 



The common justice of a nation, 

 like a philosopher at court, renders 

 rulers awful. 



KNOWLEDGE AND CONTEMPLATION 



For Against 



A contemplative life is but a spe 

 cious laziness. 



To think well is little better than 

 to dream well. 



Divine Providence regards the 

 world, but man regards only his 

 country. 



A political man sows even his 

 thoughts. 



That pleasure only is according to 

 nature, which never cloys. 



The sweetest prospect is that below, 

 into the errors of others. 



It is best to have the orbits of the 

 mind concentric with those of the uni 

 verse. 



All depraved affections are false 

 valuations, but goodness and truth 

 are ever the same. 



For LAW 



It is not expounding, but divining, 

 to recede from the letter of the law. 



To leave the letter of the law makes 

 the judge a legislator. 



For LEARNING 



Against 



Generals are to be construed so as 

 to explain particulars. 



The worst tyranny is law upon the 

 rack. 



Against 



To write books upon minute particu 

 lars were to render experience almost 

 useless. 



Beading is conversing with the wise. 



Men in universities are taught to 

 believe. 



What art ever taught the seasonable 

 use of art ? 



