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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the ...
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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- 3578
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
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- 13012
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-- Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
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Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
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