Life and Existence

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no color of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the color of the objects surrounding it.

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

Lust is the cause of generation.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

Life well spent is long.

Life well spent is long.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

The moment is timeless.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.

Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.

The knowledge of all things is possible.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.