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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

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