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“The
first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear
as a body in relief and projecting from that plane.”
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“Iron
rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and
in cold weather water becomes frozen; even so does inaction
sap the Vigor of the mind.” |
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“Do
not tell lies about the past.” |
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“The
desire to know is natural to good man.” |
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“He
who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should
look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings.
If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will
be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.”
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“Lying
on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.” |
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“It
is better to die than to lose one’s freedom.”
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“One
can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery on
oneself.” |
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“Nothing
flows faster than the years.” |
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“Beauty
adorns Virtue”. |
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“Inequality
is the cause of all local movements.” |
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“Mechanics
is the paradise of the mathematical sciences, because
by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics." |
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“He
who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who
boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows
where he may cast.” |
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“No
human investigation can be called real science if it cannot
be demonstrated mathematically.” |
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“The
noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” |
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“Feathers
shall raise men even as they do birds, towards heaven;
that is by letter written with their quills.” |
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“Patience
serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against
cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases,
it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you
must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs,
and they will be powerless to vex your mind.” |
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“As
every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.” |
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“Obstacles
cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve." |
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