Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.
He who walks straight rarely falls.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
...The world wouldn't be the world, without trouble.
Wood feeds the fire which burns it.
Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.
Poor is the man who desires a lot
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.
We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.
Music... is the shaping of the invisible.
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience
Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
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.
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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