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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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Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?
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Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.
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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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Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.
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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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It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
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Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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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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We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
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The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
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It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
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The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.
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One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.
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Vows begin when hope dies.
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
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He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
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The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
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