"Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections."
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"By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property."
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"The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God."
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"Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place."
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"It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection."
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"Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty."
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"Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it."
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"Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind."
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"It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached."
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"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."
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"Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst."
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"I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection."
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"No confession brings perfection."
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"A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect."
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"Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery."
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"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."
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"One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent."
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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show."
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"I expect perfection from myself."
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"All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake."
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