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  1. I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful t…
  2. Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.
  3. Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.
  4. Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
  5. I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I…
  6. Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret.
  7. Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
  8. I bequeath my soul to God... My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreig…

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