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 VINCIAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
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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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When taking a selfie, remember the most natural pose is still best.
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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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The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
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I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.
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Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.
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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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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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The five senses are the ministers of the soul.
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God sells us all things at the price of labor.
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Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
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The greater the man’s soul, the deeper he loves.
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He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
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