Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
Learn diligence before speedy execution.
That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
I have wasted my hours.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.
He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Whatever you think matters – doesn’t. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
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.