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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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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 |
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Life well spent is long.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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I know that many will call this useless work.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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A point is not part of a line.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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The Medici created and destroyed me.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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The atmosphere is blue by reason of the darkness above it because black and white make blue.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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The painter strives and competes with nature.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Ivy is of longevity.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Movement will cease before we are weary of being useful.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Love, Fear, and Esteem, -- Write these on three stones.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Truth here makes Falsehood torment lying tongues.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Such as harm is when it hurts me not, is good which avails me not.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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He who offends others, does not secure himself.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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One's thoughts turn towards Hope.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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To manage the large mould make a model of the small mould, make a small room in proportion.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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The motive power is the cause of all life.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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The senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
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Leonardo da Vinci |
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Truth was the only daughter of Time.
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