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1500·Venice

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

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Learning never exhausts the mind.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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

Venice