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Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

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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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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It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.
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Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.
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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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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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True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.
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Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
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