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That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.
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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When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.
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Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
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The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.
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He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
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There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.
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I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?
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I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.
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Experience never errs it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
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He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
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