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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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Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.
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Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
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The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
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Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.
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Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.
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When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.
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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.
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You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
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Experience never errs it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
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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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Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
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I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.
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If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
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Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?
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