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• The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

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  Nature, Travel, Giving

  Leonardo (da Vinci), Irma A. Richter, Thereza Wells (2008). “Notebooks”, p.344, Oxford University Press

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• It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

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  Light, Experience, Labor

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• He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

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  Memories, Use, Citing

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.26, eKitap Projesi

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• Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

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  Art, Constraints, Art Life

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• Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

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  Virtue, Honour, Ought

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• I wish to work miracles.

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  Miracle, Wish, Action

  Leonardo da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.119, Profile Books

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• For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

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  Beautiful, White, Wish

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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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  Nature, Artist, Opposites

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

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  Death, Sleep, Thinking

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• The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

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  Book, Mechanic, Invention

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

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  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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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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  Book, Medicine, Drug

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

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  Water, Doe, Pot

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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• No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

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  Real, Math, Computer

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• True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.

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  Spring, Great Love, Littles

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• Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

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  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1155, Library of Alexandria

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• Lust is the cause of generation.

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  Lust, Generations, Causes

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.337, GENERAL PRESS

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• There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

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  Hate, Two, Giving

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• A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

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  Men, Two, Soul

  Roger Whiting, Leonardo (da Vinci) (2006). “The Art of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

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  Serving Others, Tire, Enough

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• I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

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  God, Work, Technology

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• Every man at three years old is half his height

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  Men, Years, Height

  Irma A. Richter (ed.) 'Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' (World's Classics, 1952) p. 149

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• Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

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  Inspired, Vain, Labor

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• While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

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  Loneliness, Solitude, Half

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2013). “Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master”, p.516, Hachette UK

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• But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

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  Mother, Science, Errors

  "Leonardo on Art and the Artist".

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