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The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
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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Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.
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An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.
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Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
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Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
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I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
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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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Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
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There is no result in nature without a cause understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
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People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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Not to anticipate is already to moan.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
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He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.
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Realize that everything connects to everything else.
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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
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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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