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Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.
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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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.
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When you are alone you are all your own.
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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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The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.
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The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
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A life well used procures a happy death.
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O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
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You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.
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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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To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
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Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.
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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
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