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To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.
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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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.
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That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.
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