There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.
When you are alone you are all your own.
True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.
One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.
The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.
Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
I wish to work miracles.
You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.
The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.
Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.
Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.
All our knowledge originates in opinion.
Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?
Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.
For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.
Fear arises sooner than anything else.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.
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