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 VINCIAll sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
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Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
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Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
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Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!
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There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
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People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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Fear arises sooner than anything else.
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All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
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A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
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