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The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.
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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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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Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
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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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When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.
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Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
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Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
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Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.
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The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.
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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.
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Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.
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A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.
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When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.
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Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there and what you will see later is not yet.
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.
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An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it while it never was theirs nor in their power and human justice will not prevent it.
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The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.
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Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.
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