“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
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“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“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.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Nature never breaks her own laws.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“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.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
Aristotle
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Aristotle
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
Aristotle
“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”
Aristotle
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
Aristotle
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
Aristotle
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
Aristotle
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle
“True friends stab you in the front.”
Oscar Wilde
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde
“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”
Oscar Wilde
“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde