Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. Votes: 19
Art is never finished, only abandoned. Votes: 15
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. Votes: 4
Nature never breaks her own laws. Votes: 0
Life well spent is long. Votes: 0
Learning never exhausts the mind. Votes: 0
Wisdom is the daughter of experience Votes: 0
Wood feeds the fire which burns it. Votes: 0
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. Votes: 0
The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star. Votes: 0
A gray day provides the best light. Votes: 0
A well-spent day brings happy sleep. Votes: 0
life without love, is no life at all Votes: 0
Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light. Votes: 0
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof. Votes: 0
Truth was the only daughter of Time. Votes: 0
Inaction saps the vigor of the mind. Votes: 0
Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world. Votes: 0
Who sows virtue reaps honor. Votes: 0
The Medici created and destroyed me. Votes: 0
A long life is a life well spent. Votes: 0
All thoughts start from emotions. Votes: 0
Among the great things which are to be found among us, the being of nothingness is the greatest. Votes: 0
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. Votes: 0
Especially learn how to see. Votes: 0
For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground. Votes: 0
For youth, everything is sport. Votes: 0
Good writing comes from good talent. Votes: 0
He who can copy can do. Votes: 0
He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect. Votes: 0
He who thinks little errs much… Votes: 0
He who walks straight rarely falls. Votes: 0
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains. Votes: 0
I have wasted my hours. Votes: 0
I wish to work miracles... Votes: 0
In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age. Votes: 0
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death. Votes: 0
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. Votes: 0
Life, when is spent well, is long. Votes: 0
Lust is the cause of generation. Votes: 0
Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished. Votes: 0
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions. Votes: 0
My body is not a tomb for animals. Votes: 0
Necessity is a guardian in Nature. Votes: 0
No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically. Votes: 0
Nothing is hidden under the sun. Votes: 0
One's thoughts turn towards Hope. Votes: 0
Poor is the man who desires a lot Votes: 0
Savage is he who saves himself. Votes: 0
Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray. Votes: 0
Some promises and time disappoint us Votes: 0
Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it. Votes: 0
The cat is nature's masterpiece. Votes: 0
The moment has no time. Votes: 0
The moment is timeless. Votes: 0
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. Votes: 0
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection. Votes: 0
The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes. Votes: 0
Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding. Votes: 0
To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it. Votes: 0
Vows begin when hope dies. Votes: 0
We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own. Votes: 0
We should not desire the impossible. Votes: 0