"Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts."
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"A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present."
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"A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds."
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"The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world."
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"The grave will fall in upon him who digs it."
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"Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood."
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"Music... is the shaping of the invisible."
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"I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep."
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"It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last."
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"He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot."
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"Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind."
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"Truth was always but the daughter of time."
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"A long life is a life well spent."
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"Life, when is spent well, is long."
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"The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places."
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"Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming."
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"Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report."
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"O time! swift devourer of all created things!"
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"You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child."
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"All our knowledge originates in opinion."
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