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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor [more author details]
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Inequality is the cause of all local movements.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
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Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
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Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
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Leonardo da Vinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy

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