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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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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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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
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The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
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It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.
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He who fears dangers will not perish by them.
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Strive to preserve your health and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.
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The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
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He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
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All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.
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Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.
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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.
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He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.
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The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.
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You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
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Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.
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