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Often appears with: temperance and self-mastery · self-discipline · envy, jealousy, and resentment · envy and fortune · beauty vs goodness · ambition and the love of glory
Usually: list or catalogue (1) · exhortation (1) · skepticism (1)
“Where good fortune enters, envy lays siege to her and attacks her, and when she departs sorrow and regret remain behind.” Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life · insight
“Fire destroys falsehood,--that is to say, sophistry,--and rehabilitates truth, scattering the darkness.” Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life · insight
A sequence of proverbs treats envy and fortune, the relation of beauty to goodness, discipline and risk, and the ethics of art and truth—emphasizing persistence, self-rule, and the limits of empty fame.
Where good fortune enters, envy lays siege to her and attacks her, and when she departs sorrow and regret remain behind. When beauty exists side by side with ugliness, the one seems more powerful, owing to the presence of the other. He who walks straight rarely falls. O miserable race of man! of how many things you make yourself the slave for the sake of money! The worst evil which can befall the artist is that h…