“Excellence connects.”
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American author, speaker and pastor 1947Related quotes
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Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) Florentine sculptor and goldsmith
Dico, che l'arte della Scultura infra tutte l'arte, che s'interviene disegno, è maggiore sette volte, perchè una statua di Scultura deve avere otto vedute, e conviene che la sieno tutte di egual bontà.
Letter to Benedetto Varchi, January 28, 1546, cited from G. P. Carpani (ed.) Vita di Benvenuto Cellini (Milano: Nicolo Bettoni, 1821) vol. 3, p. 183; translation from Thomas Nugent (trans.) The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine Artist (London: Hunt and Clarke, 1828) vol. 2, p. 264.
Arthur Schopenhauer book The World as Will and Representation
E. Payne, trans., vol. 2, p. 230
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
“One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
The Geographical History of America (1936)
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
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Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“I myself had rather excel others in excellency of learning than in greatness of power.”
Plutarch book Parallel Lives
Alexander, sec. 7
Parallel Lives