Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

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A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

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There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

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Not even the gods fight against necessity.

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Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.

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Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.

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If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest.

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