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Classical antiquity27 quotes
Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly: but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius · 180What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Mankind have been created for the sake of one another. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it. — Marcus Aurelius · 180All 27 quotes →The Renaissance7 quotes
Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1519Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1519Human subtlety... Will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1519Man and animal are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1508Perspective is the bridle and rudder of painting. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1519Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1519All 7 quotes →Age of Enlightenment1 quote
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. — Samuel Johnson · 1773Age of Exploration1 quote
At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of two leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail without bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue Guanahaní. — Christopher Columbus · 1492