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The cat is nature's masterpiece.

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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Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
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You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.
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Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
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Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
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Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.
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Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.
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People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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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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I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?
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Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
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A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.
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I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.
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It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.
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