Good writing comes from good talent.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.