Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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He who thinks little errs much.

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I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.

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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

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It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

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Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

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