"Life well spent is long."
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"Inequality is the cause of all local movements."
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"Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use."
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"Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way."
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"Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body."
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"Savage is he who saves himself."
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"Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act."
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"Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments."
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"It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas."
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"The moment is timeless."
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"Not to anticipate is already to moan."
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"When you are alone you are all your own."
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"Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work."
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"Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes."
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"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."
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"There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings."
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"The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body."
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"Ask counsel of him who rules himself well."
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"He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement."
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"He turns not back who is bound to a star."
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