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The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.
— Leon Battista Alberti
The movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.
— Leon Battista Alberti
And since Rebecca already placed your order five minutes ago, I can only assume that this was an excuse to check out my rack. All done?
— Jeanette Battista
You're never quite sure how you feel about a neighbor until a 'For Sale' sign suddenly appears in front of his house.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind ...
— Leon Battista Alberti
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
— Leon Battista Alberti
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
A happy marriage is the world's best bargain.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
True love doesn't consist of holding hands, it consists of holding hearts.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Moral certainty is never more than probability.
— Giovanni Battista Beccaria
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.
— Leon Battista Alberti
The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.
— Leon Battista Alberti
A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
— Leon Battista Alberti
The function of the painter is to render ... the visible surface so that at a certain distance ... and position it appears ... like the body itself.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.
— Leon Battista Alberti
For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.
— Giovanni Battista Beccaria
Painting contains a divine force which ... makes the dead seem almost alive.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
As ability goes, so goes our fortune.
— Leon Battista Alberti
The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it.
— Leon Battista Alberti
The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
Far worse it is
To lose than never to have tasted bliss. — Giovanni Battista Guarini
To lose than never to have tasted bliss. — Giovanni Battista Guarini
Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Buildings have been made because of man.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.
— Giovanni Battista Brocchi
It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.
— Leon Battista Alberti
An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see ...
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
A person can do anything if they only will it strongly enough.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Men can do all things if they will.
— Leon Battista Alberti
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.
— Leon Battista Alberti
You don't need to throw something away just because you're afraid of how it might turn out.
— Jeanette Battista
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
— Leon Battista Alberti
A man can do all things if he will.
— Leon Battista Alberti