Michelangelo
"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
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"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."
"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."
"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."