A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
LEONARDO DA VINCIOur life is made by the death of others.
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Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
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People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
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Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
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Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man’s mind.
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
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The moment is timeless.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
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