Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
LEONARDO DA VINCIMan has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
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All thoughts start from emotions.
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
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He who thinks little errs much.
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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The moment is timeless.
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
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Being willing is not enough. We must do.
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.
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