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• The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fall, Intelligent, Graves

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1190, Library of Alexandria

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• I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

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  Answers, Strange Phenomena, Countryside

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• I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Doors, Ever After

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• A gray day provides the best light.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Gray, Gray Days

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• The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Knowledge, Color

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• I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  World

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• I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

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• The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Treasure, Riches

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Intelligent, Needs

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1146, Library of Alexandria

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• The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Eye, Dark

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.459, GENERAL PRESS

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• Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Work, Distance, Taken

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• If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Dumb, May, Painting

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.226, GENERAL PRESS

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• Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Hands, Rivers, Lasts

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• The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Godly, Speaking Well

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.268, OUP Oxford

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• Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Quilts, Lying, Renown

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• Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Air, Evil

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• The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Soul, Body

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.106, OUP Oxford

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• Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

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  Kings, Animal, Men

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• How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Order, Records, Might

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• Fear arises sooner than anything else.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Arise

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.262, OUP Oxford

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• The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Vision, Littles, Merit

  Leonardo (da Vinci), Edward McCurdy (1939). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

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• A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Attitude, Men

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1998). “Leonardo Da Vinci: 1452-1519”, Konemann

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• We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Growth, Earth, Flesh

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.395, GENERAL PRESS

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• He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Confusion, Ontology, Doe

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• Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Fire, Darkness

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

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