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 VINCIBeauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.
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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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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
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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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The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
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You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
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Fear arises sooner than anything else.
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