"For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground."
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"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."
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"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
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"Every obstacle yields to stern resolve."
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"Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws."
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"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
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"Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest."
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"Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it."
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"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
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"Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom."
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"Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs."
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"If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also."
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"No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically."
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"Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it."
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"And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe."
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"He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others."
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"Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener."
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"We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil."
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"There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things."
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"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."
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