Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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I know that many will call this useless work.
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We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...
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A luminous body when obscured by a dense atmosphere will appear smaller; as may be seen by the moon or sun veiled by fogs.
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Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.
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Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
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Chi poco pensa, molto erra.
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Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.
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Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.
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The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.
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The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
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Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.
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The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.
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Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead:-The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
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The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.
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Impetus is a power of the mover applied in a movable thing which causes the movable thing to move after it is separated from its mover.
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Whenever you make a figure of a man or of some graceful animal remember to avoid making it seem wooden; that is it should move with counterpoise and balance in such a way as not to seem a block of wood.
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The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
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The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
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Be not false about the past.
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It is bad if you praise, and worse if you reprove a thing, I mean, if you do not understand the matter well.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.