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Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
Age: 88 †
Born: 1475
Born: March 6
Died: 1564
Died: February 18
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Michelangelo Bonorotti
Michael Angelo Buonarotti
Miguel Angel
Michel Angel de Bonarrotta
Michelangelo Buonnaroti
Michelangelo Buonarrota
Michel Aniol
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Michelagniolo di Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarroto Simoni
Michelangiolo
Michelangiolo Buonaroti
Michiel Angelo buonarota
Buonaruota
Mic Angelo
Buonarhota
Michel
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The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.
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And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
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To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.
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The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
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The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.
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There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
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Patience is eternal genius
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A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
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