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Wells Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings…
- When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you…
- The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and…
- I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned…
- The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the…
- Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
- We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.
- Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a…
- The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.
- It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.
- As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Life well spent is long.
- Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong