The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.
Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
A gray day provides the best light.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!
The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.
Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.
If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
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