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All our knowledge originates in opinion.
Learn diligence before speedy execution.
Our life is made by the death of others.
Water is the driving force of all nature.
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
Music... is the shaping of the invisible.
The desire to know is natural to good men.
The motive power is the cause of all life.
Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.
Nature alone is the master of true genius.
Truth was always but the daughter of time.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
That which has no limitations, has no form.
In time and with water, everything changes.
Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.
Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.
The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain
He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
He who fears dangers will not perish by them.
The painter strives and competes with nature.
O time! swift devourer of all created things!
Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.
We may call painting the grandchild of nature.
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
The five senses are the ministers of the soul.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.
Every man at three years old is half his height
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.
Inequality is the cause of all local movements.
Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.
Study the science of art and the art of science.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.
The days are long enough for those who use them.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain
Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.