Man 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.
LEONARDO DA VINCIStudy without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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All thoughts start from emotions.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
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Man 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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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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To become an artist you have to be curious.
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One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
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Time stays long enough for those who use it.
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Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
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Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
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Life without love, is no life at all.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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