Experience is a truer guide than the words of others. - Leonardo da Vinci

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

It is bad if you praise, and worse if you reprove a thing, I mean, if you do not understand the matter well.

Titian, who painted the living man of action, the man of parts, susceptible alike to the appreciation of ideal beauty and heroic impulse, but guided withal by expediency, reflected this more practical aspect of life. In his portraiture he expressed the statecraft for which Italians found opportunity beyond the Alps, since in Italy it was denied them; and Titian found even Venice too narrow for the scope of his art.