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Ask counsel of him who rules himself 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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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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Learn diligence before speedy execution.
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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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Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
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Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.
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The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.
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Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.
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A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet.
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Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
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I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
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I love those who can smile in trouble.
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.
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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.
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I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
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Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.
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If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side.
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