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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

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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Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
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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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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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The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
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That which has no limitations, has no form.
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Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.
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Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
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If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul.
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