"It is a far worthier thing to..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
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“Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.”
“O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.”
“In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.”
More on Experience
“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”
“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.”
“He lives most life whoever breathes most air.”
More on Learning
“Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.”
“In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.”
“In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.”