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Not to anticipate is already to moan.
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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Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.
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Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.
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It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.
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Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.
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Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.
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In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer... five times as far away, make five times as blue.
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Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
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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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We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth that its flesh is the soil.
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If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
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Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.
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One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.
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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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The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.
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It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet.
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