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 our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
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The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
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Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.
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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
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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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We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one’s own.
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
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Water is the driving force in nature.
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Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
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Being willing is not enough. We must do.
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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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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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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God sells us all things at the price of labor.
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Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
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