All Quotes
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I know all except myself.Francois Villon, Ballade des Menus Propres
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?Robert Louis Stevenson
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
The world wants to be deceived.Sebastian Brant, The Ship of Fools
I say, thou mad March hare.John Skelton, Replication Against Certain Young Scholars
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince