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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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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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Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
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To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
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He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
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Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
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Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
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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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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough we must apply. Being willing is not enough we must do.
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