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.
LEONARDO DA VINCIWisdom is the daughter of experience.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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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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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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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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Water is the driving force in nature.
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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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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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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
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Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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