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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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The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.
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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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There is no result in nature without a cause understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
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If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
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Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden.
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The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.
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Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
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The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.
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If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.
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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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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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