Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
...The world wouldn't be the world, without trouble.
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
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.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
Wood feeds the fire which burns it.
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.
Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.
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.
Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.
We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
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.
Music... is the shaping of the invisible.
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.
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
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.
Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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