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A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

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Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
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He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.
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Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
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Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
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Study the science of art and the art of science.
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Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.
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My body is not a tomb for animals.
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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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A life well used procures a happy death.
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A long life is a life well spent.
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The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.
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If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.
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The desire to know is natural to good men.
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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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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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