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I love those who can smile in trouble.

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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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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O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.
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Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?
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You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.
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Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
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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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The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.
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The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
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