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Leonardo Da Vinci Inspirational Quotes (329)

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simplicity is the best sophistication
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O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.
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First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.
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The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
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To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.
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Truth was always but the daughter of time.
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Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
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Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.
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I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.
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Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.
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Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
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A life well used procures a happy death.
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In time and with water, everything changes.
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Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.
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I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.
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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.
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What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?
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The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.
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It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.
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The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.
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A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.
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Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
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