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Man Quotes by Michelangelo
- It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
- If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all,…
- The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.
- And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than…
- Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which…
- There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the…
- Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which…
- A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
- Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
- I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my…
- So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that…
- I stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world; to interrogate the laws of man and of God! I request reasons for your golden…
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- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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