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…

Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

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Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not...

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not...

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned...

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned...

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

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

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

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

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and...

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and...

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

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

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

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

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

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

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

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not...

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not...