“How frail the human heart must be —
a mirrored pool of thought.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: "I Thought I Could Not Be Hurt," quoted in the introduction to Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1975) as Plath's first poem, written at age 14
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Folks little indebted to Nature, since it is only by chance that they wear the human form and without it I might class them with the herds of beasts.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
“Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.”
Aeschylus (-525–-456 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Fragment 384, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
Diary entry (Munich, 1901), # 136, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968, p. 48
1895 - 1902
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
Quoted in Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication (2008) by Tim O'Shei, ISBN 159845076X , p. 5
“… it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Il est certain que pendant le seizième siècle, dans les années qui le précédèrent et le suivirent, l'empoisonnement était arrivé à une perfection inconnue à la chimie moderne et que l'histoire a constatée. L'Italie, berceau des sciences modernes, fut, à cette époque, inventrice et maîtresse de ces secrets dont plusieurs se perdirent.
Source: About Catherine de' Medici (1842), Part II: The Ruggieri's Secret, Ch. II: Schemes Against Schemes.
“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
Speculum mentis est facies, et taciti oculi cordis fatentur arcana.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
Letter 54
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