The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if...
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.
The knowledge of all things is possible
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.-Leonard Da Vinci
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm
Water is the driving force in nature.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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