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 VINCII 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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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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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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It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
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Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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Fear arises sooner than anything else.
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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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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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Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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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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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.
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