"I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!"
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"Wood feeds the fire which burns it."
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"We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot."
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"It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips."
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"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
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"The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base."
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"You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself."
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"Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms."
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"Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding."
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"Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry."
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"Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law."
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"What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?"
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"There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are."
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"That painter who has no doubts will achieve little."
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"Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ."
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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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"The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them."
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"Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world."
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"I have wasted my hours."
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"All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them."
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