While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience
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Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
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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 l...
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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.
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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
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If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, r...
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All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
