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Leonardo Da Vinci Inspirational Quotes (329)

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A long life is a life well spent.
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
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All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.
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It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.
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Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead.
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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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.
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He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.
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Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
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Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
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Not to anticipate is already to moan.
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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The desire to know is natural to good men.
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The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.
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It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
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Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.
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Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.
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When you are alone you are all your own.
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The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
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Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.
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