Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope.
Music fathoms the sky.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Forgotten is forgiven.
Hope is a waking dream.
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