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A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after… — Michel de Montaigne
Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to… — Michel de Montaigne
Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts. — Plato
The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It… — D. H. Lawrence
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with… — Marcus Aurelius
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it. — Oscar Wilde
Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. — Unknown Author
There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second,… — Leonardo da Vinci
Yesterday, Saddam Hussein got 100 percent of the vote. Well, that's according to Saddam's campaign manager, Jeb Hussein. — Jay Leno
Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one's own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some people say that,… — Dalai Lama
Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision… — John Milton
Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given… — Henri Matisse
All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature. — Charles Baudelaire
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower… — Thomas Sowell
One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and… — Andre Breton
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is… — Baron de Montesquieu
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the… — Jacob Burckhardt
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to… — Chogyam Trungpa
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail according… — Joshua Reynolds
Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those… — Paul Cezanne
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment… — Eugene Delacroix
We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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