"Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more."
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"My body is not a tomb for animals."
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"The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it."
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"Lust is the cause of generation."
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"Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present."
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"The desire to know is natural to good men."
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"Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body."
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"Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption."
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"Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant."
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"I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense."
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"Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death."
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"A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder."
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"Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines."
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"O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying."
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"He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them."
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"Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest."
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"The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him."
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"If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil."
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"He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected."
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"The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own."
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