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Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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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 truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
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What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
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Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
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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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Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.
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If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]
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No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.
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That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.
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Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
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Vows begin when hope dies.
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The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.
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The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
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Poor is the man who desires a lot
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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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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
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Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.
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Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.
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