Life and Existence

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.

One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes 104 to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other 103 noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.

Man’s external form, marvelously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

Old age takes in part savory wisdom for its food, see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

Some promises and time disappoint us.