Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

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If poetry touches on moral philosophy, then painting is at the center of the philosophy of nature; if the former describes the operations of the contemplative spirit, the latter operates with the spirit of movement.

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Painting is poetry that is looked at, and poetry is a painting that is listened to.

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Painting confronts and competes with nature.

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Sweetness must be paid for with bitterness.

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Knowledge that is not born of experience - the mother of all certainty - is sterile and full of errors.

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Leos also have bad days, when everything goes wrong and misfortunes await them at every step.

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Truth is the only daughter of time.

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True love shows itself when needed. Like fire, the brighter it shines, the darker the darkness of the night.

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As a warm coat protects us from the cold, so self-control protects us from anger. Increase your patience and spiritual peace, however bitter it may be, it will not touch you.

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He who lives in fear will die in fear.

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Iron, if it does not find a use, rusts, stagnant water stinks or freezes when it is frosty, and the mind of man, not finding its use, withers.

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If you arm yourself with patience and show strength, the planted seeds of knowledge will surely bear good fruit. The root of knowledge is bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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Do not feed the lazy man, but let him talk, and in the art of slander you will not find his equal. She is always ready to find a justification for her own nothingness.

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In nature, everything is thought out and composed with wisdom, each must mind his own business, and in this wisdom lies the supreme justice of life.

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Among fools there is a certain group, called the hypocrites, who learn without ceasing how to deceive themselves and others, but others more than themselves, and who, in reality, deceive themselves more than others .

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You do harm if you praise, but even more harm you do if you blame something you are not good at.

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Anyone who wants to have faithful friends must be kind and patient, attentive to the needs of others. Honor and respect are not obtained by force, but by generosity and the ability to share the last Sunday with the one in need.

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Any life well lived is a long life.

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Where the spirit does not guide the hand of the artist, there is no art.

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Where hope dies, desolation is born.

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Eyes and ears thirsty for foreign secrets will always be found.

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He who does not punish evil helps it to pass.

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Chickens can live in peace and harmony under the same roof, but two roosters can never fit in the same coop - that's their nature.

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Seek the advice of one who is able to overcome himself.

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The enemy who shows you what mistakes you are making is much more useful than the friend who hides them from you.

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The radiant beauty of youth is diminished in its perfection by exaggerated and too elegant adornments.

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Fame lies in the hands of work.

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

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As the relishless gorging of food turns into sterile nourishment, so the dispassionate practice of science sullies the memory which becomes incapable of assimilating what it regurgitates.

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Temperance serves as a reliable guard against vice.

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I prefer death, fatigue. I never tire of serving others.

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Can a secret be kept for long when the mouth of the world, like the wave of the sea, suddenly reveals everything?

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It's true: he who doesn't value life doesn't deserve it.

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It is very true that where rational arguments are insufficient, they are replaced by shouting.

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What is beautiful is not always good.

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Any obstacle is overcome by perseverance.

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Science is the commander, and practice, its soldiers.

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You should never disregard good advice, especially when you are in an unfamiliar place.

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The donkey is ready to bear all burdens and troubles. And anyone who lacks self-control and patience calls him stubborn.

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By offending the other, you are not taking care of yourself.

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We received from our parents a great and priceless gift - life. They nurtured and nurtured us, sparing neither power nor love. And now, when they are old and sick, it is our duty to heal them and take care of them!

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It is a sad fate for the gifted person if, instead of developing and perfecting his possibilities, he puffs himself up and indulges in self-indulgence and self-satisfaction. Such a man gradually loses his clarity and sharpness of mind, becomes backward, lazy and filled with a rusty ignorance that eats away at his body and soul.

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Just as a day well lived brings a happy sleep, so a life well lived brings a happy death.

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Better to die than to suffer in captivity.

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."

"A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument."

"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

"Men do wrong to lament the flight of time, complaining that it passes too quickly and failing to perceive that its period is sufficiently long; but a good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes everything that is long past to appear to us to be present."

"Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light."

"Anyone who supports an argument by appealing to an authority is not using their intelligence; he only uses his memory."

"Since you cannot do what you wish, wish what you can do."

"As a well-spent day brings a happy sleep, so a well-employed life brings a happy death."

"Experience is a truer guide than the words of others."

"There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see." Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity."

"Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect."

"Practice must always be founded on sound theory."

"Those who accomplish don't sit around, hoping things will happen to them..."

"Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art."

"A painter without a brush is like a weasel without a tongue"

"The instant does not have time; and time is made from the movement of the instant."

"Who sows virtue reaps honour."

"Tomaso of Florence, known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress of masters, were laboring in vain."

"People of accomplishments rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things."

"Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

"For once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

"The air moves like a river and carries the clouds with it; just as running water carries all the things that float upon it."

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, and there you long to return."

"My body is not a tomb for other creatures."

"While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

"Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful."

"No human investigation can be called real knowledge if it does not pass through mathematical demonstrations; and if you say that the kinds of knowledge that begin and end in the mind have any value as truth, this cannot be conceded, but rather must be denied for many reasons, and first of all because in such mental discussions there is no experimentation, without which nothing provides certainty of itself."

"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."

"He who does not value life does not deserve it."

"As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise."

"Tell me if anything was ever done... Tell me... Tell me."

"The abbreviators of works do injury to knowledge and to love.Of what value is he who,in order to abbreviate the parts of those things of which he professes to give complete knowledge,leaves out the greater part of the things of which the whole is composed?Oh human stupidity!You don’t see that you are falling into the same error as one who strips a tree of its adornment of branches full of leaves,intermingled with fragrant flowers or fruit in order to demonstrate that the tree is good for making planks."

"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard: but if he will apply himself to learn from the objects of nature he will produce good results. This we see was the case with the painters who came after the time of the Romans, for they continually imitated each other, and from age to age their art steadily declined."

"The draperies that clothe figures must show that they are inhabited by these figures, enveloping them neatly to show the posture and motion of such figures, and avoiding the confusion of many folds, especially over the prominent parts, so that these may be evident."

"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."

"They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words. And experience has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy: on experience, the mistress of their masters."

"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."

"The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark."

"Art is never completed, only abandoned."

"Love is something so ugly that the human race would die out if lovers could see what they were doing"

"How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time or death. Thus, the work of the painter is nobler than that of nature, its mistress."

"I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep."

"A life without love, is no life at all."

"I thought i was learning to live but i was learning to die."

"Lies don't solve problems it just make it worst ...so liars beware."

"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."

"Most people, if you give them a book, they sniff around on it awhile, then try to eat it."

"Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy – on experience, the mistress of their Masters."

"He who does not punish evil commands it to be done."

"Animals will be seen on the earth who will always be fighting against each other with the greatest loss and frequent deaths on each side. And there will be no end to their malignity; by their strong limbs we shall see a great portion of the trees of the vast forests laid low throughout the universe; and, when they are filled with food the satisfaction of their desires will be to deal death and grief and labour and wars and fury to every living thing; and from their immoderate pride they will desire to rise towards heaven, but the too great weight of their limbs will keep them down. Nothing will remain on earth, or under the earth or in the waters which will not be persecuted, disturbed and spoiled, and those of one country removed into another. And their bodies will become the sepulture and means of transit of all they have killed. O Earth! why dost thou not open and engulf them in the fissures of thy vast abyss and caverns, and no longer display in the sight of heaven such a cruel and horrible monster?"

"One can have no greater or lesser mastery than of oneself."

"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."

"The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there were no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions."

"I love to kiss my girl when we watch deep Netflix shows."

"Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest."

"Nature never breaks her own laws."

"Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom."

"To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another."

"To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, firsthand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to these senses such as the existence of god or of the soul or similar things over which there is always dispute and contention."

"We do not lack devices for measuring these miserable days of ours, in which it should be our pleasure that they be not frittered away without leaving behind any memory of ourselves in the mind of men."

"I expose to men the origin of their first, and perhaps second, reason for existing."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity."

"That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us. Hold property and external riches with fear; they often leave their possessor scorned and mocked at for having lost them."

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."

"I believe man will fly and I base this assumption on the fact that God has blessed us with minds that are capable of imagining it. Anything that can be dreamt of will eventually be built. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool."

"There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement."

"Fine gold is recognized when it is tested."

"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen."

"Obstacles cannot crush me...he who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

"Everything in some way connects to everything else."

"It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see."

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets."

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

"In time and with water, everything changes."

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

"The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment."

"A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves."

"The human bird shall take his first flight,filling the words with amazement,all writings with his fame,and bringing eternal glory to those whose nest whence he sprang."

"The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance."

"Look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene, you can see there resemblances to a number of landscapes, adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, great plains, valleys and hills, in various ways. Also you can see various battles, and lively postures of strange figures, expressions on faces, costumes and an infinite number of things, which you can reduce to good integrated form. This happens on such walls and varicoloured stones, (which act) like the sound of bells, in whose peeling you can find every name and word that you can imagine. Do not despise my opinion, when I remind you that it should not hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or the ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which, if you consider them well, you may find really marvelous ideas. The mind of the painter is stimulated to new discoveries, the composition of battles of animals and men, various compositions of landscapes and monstrous things, such as devils and similar things, which may bring you honor, because by indistinct things the mind is stimulated to new inventions."

"What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art."

"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

"Experience is never at fault; it is only your judgment that is in error, in promising itself such results from experience as are not caused by our experiments. For having given a beginning, what follows from it must necessarily be a natural development of such a beginning, unless it has been subject to a contrary influence, while, if it is affected by any contrary influence, the result which ought to follow from the aforesaid beginning, will be found to partake of this contrary influence in a greater or lesser degree in proportion as the said influence is more or less powerful than the aforesaid beginning."

"He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done."

"Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest."

"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."

"Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm."

"All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass."

"...the love of anything is the offspring of knowledge, love being more fervent in proportion as knowledge is more certain. And this certainty springs from a complete knowledge of all parts which united compose the whole of the thing which out to be loved."

"People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen."

"And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe."

"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come."

"To become an artist you have to be curious."

"The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams, than the imagination awake."

"A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year."

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."

"Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail."

"The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."

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

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. Learning never exhausts the mind. Art is never finished, only abandoned. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. Water is the driving force of all nature."

"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."

"Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?"

"Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world."

"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."

"Our life is made by the death of others."

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."

"My body will not be a tomb for other creatures."

"He who thinks little errs much…"

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast."

"He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss."

"Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve."

"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."

"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."

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

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man."

"Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death."

"Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it."

"He who can copy can do."

"Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding."

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

"Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."

"We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul."

"The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes."

"He who truly knows has no occasion to shout."

"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."

"To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."

"The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened."

"Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes."

"He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done."

"He is a poor pupil who does not go beyond his master."

"While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous."

"If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings."

"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

"If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight."

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

"The knowledge of all things is possible."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood."

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

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

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

"I love those who can smile in trouble..."

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

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

"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

"The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain."

"Time stays long enough for those who use it."

"An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking."

"Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose."

"Intellectual passion drives out sensuality."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

"All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions."

"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."

"Water is the driving force in nature."

"God sells us all things at the price of labor."

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."

"Realize that everything connects to everything else."

"life without love, is no life at all."

"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."

"Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."

"As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do."

"One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all."

"I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die."

"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."

"You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others."

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."

"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of."

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."

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Anyone who wants to get rich in a day will be hanged within a year.

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The disciple who does not surpass his master is pitiable.

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Just as a happy dream follows a well-spent day, so a happy death awaits a well-spent life.

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He who relies on authority during an argument does not use his intellect, but rather his memory.

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Dangers never overtake those who fear them.

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He who owns more should be more afraid of loss.

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Simplicity is the height of sophistication.

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When I thought I was learning to live, I was actually learning to die.

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Only the treasure of your mind and soul gained through reading is true wealth, because it is never lost and will never leave you.

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He who thinks little makes many mistakes.

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Reprimand your friend only in secret, but praise him publicly!

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If you believe that old age is nourished by wisdom, then work on it when you are young so that you do not lack this nourishment in your old age.

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Threats are only the weapon of those who feel threatened.

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Ask for advice from someone who also does the right thing in his own affairs.

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The vault is two weaknesses leaning on each other, from which infinite strength arises.

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Anyone who asks young people for advice should be prepared for losses.

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Mechanics is a very noble science and extremely useful, since all the movements of living beings are based on it.

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Obstacles cannot break me. All obstacles fall before serious determination. He who fixes his eyes on a star does not change his intentions.

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It is easier to resist something at first than later.

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Knowledge is the daughter of experience.

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Study the theory first, then come the practice that comes from it.

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My understanding is that sciences that are not born from experience, the mother of all certainty, and that do not end in tangible practice, that is, whose origin, formation and end goal do not pass through one of the five senses, are vain and full of errors.

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Our body is subject to heaven, heaven is subject to our spirit.

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The science of painting begins with the dot, followed by the line. The plane is the third, and the fourth is the body, which is covered by the mantle of the planes.

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Experience proves that those who do not trust anything will never be deceived.

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Fear is born sooner than anything else.

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Emptiness is born when hope dies.

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A new kind of vision consists in the fact that if you look carefully at a wall that is dotted with all kinds of stains, you will see things that are born only in your imagination.

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It is the death of others that allows us to live.

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Think like your father taught you! Live as your mother taught you!

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No action in nature is without a cause; understand the reason and you won't need the experience.

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If the beloved is lowly, the lover is also lowly.

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Nature does not break its laws.

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Everything comes from everything and everything becomes everything.

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We cannot hate or love anything until we understand it.

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Where there is more feeling, there is more suffering.

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Just as a piece of iron worn out from use can rust, so a mind condemned to inactivity begins to deteriorate.

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The greatest and at the same time the least rule is self-control.

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This man is crazy! He is always miserable in order not to be miserable.

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It's wrong to praise something you don't really understand, but even worse to scold.

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Once you've tasted flight, you'll walk on the ground with your eyes scanning the sky, because you've been up there and you want to go back there.

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Get something when you're young that will make up for your old age!

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Obstacles cannot overcome; all obstacles are there to overcome.

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Experience is not wrong. Only your judgment can be faulty, because you expect something from him that is beyond his control.

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The biggest illusion in existence is one's own opinion.

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Many practice deception and false miracles to deceive the ignorant masses.

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Ignorance makes you blind. Oh, wretched mortal, open your eyes!

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He who does not punish evil encourages evil.

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Ambitious people who are never satisfied with the blessings of life and the beauties of the world have the forced punishment of never being able to understand life and remaining insensitive to the goods and beauty of the universe.

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Iron rusts when not used. Standing water loses its purity and freezes in the cold. In the same way, idleness takes away the power of the mind.