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Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
Anatomist
Architect
Astronomer
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Chemist
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Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
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A life well used procures a happy death.
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Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
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The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
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That which has no limitations, has no form.
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The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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He who fears dangers will not perish by them.
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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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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
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Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.
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The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
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Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
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All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.
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I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
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As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.
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Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.
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