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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

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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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.
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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
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Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
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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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Truth was the only daughter of Time.
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The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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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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When you are alone you are all your own.
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To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.
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The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.
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Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.
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The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
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What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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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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