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Nature never breaks her own laws.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
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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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Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
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To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.
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Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.
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The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
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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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The desire to know is natural to good men.
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You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
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You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
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