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Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.
Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.
To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.
One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.
If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.
Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.
The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.
My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.