Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Life well spent is long.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Our life is made by the death of others.
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
He who does not value life does not deserve it.
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
Water is the driving force of all nature.
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge w...
That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us. Hold property and external...
To become an artist you have to be curious.
Water is the driving force in nature.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
I love those who can smile in trouble...
Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.