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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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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.
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Vows begin when hope dies.
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Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
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All our knowledge originates in opinion.
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I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.
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The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
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Strive to preserve your health and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.
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It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
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Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.
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He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.
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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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O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.
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