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Leonardo Da Vinci Inspirational Quotes (329)

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Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.
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Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
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To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.
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Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.
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Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.
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He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
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The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.
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We ought not to desire the impossible.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
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An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it while it never was theirs nor in their power and human justice will not prevent it.
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
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O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.
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If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul.
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Lust is the cause of generation.
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To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.
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Experience never errs it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
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Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.
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Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden.
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Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
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The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
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Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.
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Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.
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Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
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