"Every man at three years old is half his height"
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"The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies."
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"But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience."
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"Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience."
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"When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction."
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"The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things."
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"The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions."
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"It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually."
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"No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature."
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"O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold."
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"The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air."
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"I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it."
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"Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease."
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"Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us."
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"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."
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"Who sows virtue ought to reap honour."
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"We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul."
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"The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture."
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"The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul."
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"He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss."
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