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Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.
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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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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He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
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We ought not to desire the impossible.
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And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.
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Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.
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A life well used procures a happy death.
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A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.
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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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It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.
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You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
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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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