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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 are alone you are all your own.
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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.
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A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
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life without love, is no life at all
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If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul.
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The desire to know is natural to good men.
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Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.
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What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
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To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.
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Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.
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Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.
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Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?
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The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
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A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.
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When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.
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The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.
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My body is not a tomb for animals.
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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
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