It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

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Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo Da Vinci in Notebooks (1500)
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