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Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
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You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
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Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.
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Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.
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Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.
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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth that its flesh is the soil.
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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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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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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
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life without love, is no life at all
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A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.
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To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
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Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
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Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
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The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
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One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.
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