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Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.

Leonardo da Vinci

Hurt, Clothes, Feelings

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1971). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

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I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Leonardo da Vinci

Animal, Space, Receiving

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.331, GENERAL PRESS

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Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Blessed

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The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Leonardo da Vinci

Intelligent, Desire, Body

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.440, GENERAL PRESS

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Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

Leonardo da Vinci

Light, Originals

"Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists".

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Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

Leonardo da Vinci

Broken, Black, Capacity

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It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Leonardo da Vinci

Errors, Facts, Perceive

Leonardo da Vinci, John Sidney Hawkins (1802). “A treatise on painting. To which is prefixed a new life of the author, by J.S. Hawkins”, p.203

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A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

Leonardo da Vinci

Animal, Men, Looks

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Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Leonardo da Vinci

Animal, Reality, Men

Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.45, Lulu.com

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Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Mistake, Tests, Be Prepared

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For youth, everything is sport.

Leonardo da Vinci

Sports, Youth

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It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

Leonardo da Vinci

Ambition, Suffering, Ambitious

Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.24, Lulu.com

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Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

Leonardo da Vinci

Color, Yellow, White

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Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

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Leonardo (da Vinci) (1958). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

Memories, Integrity, Patriotic

"The Book of Unusual Quotations" by Rudolf Flesch, (p. 12), 1957.

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The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art, Sex, Actors

Dell' Anatomia Fogli B (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. III)

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The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives.

Leonardo da Vinci

Lovers, Perceive

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

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O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

Leonardo da Vinci

Years, Dying, Littles

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That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.

Leonardo da Vinci

Doubt, Littles, Achieve

Robert Byrd, Leonardo (da Vinci) (2003). “Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer”, Dutton Books for Young Readers

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

Leonardo da Vinci

Advice, Ignorant, Needs

Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.65, Lulu.com

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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Science, Law

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.51, eKitap Projesi

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Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

Leonardo da Vinci

Age, Old Age, Nourishment

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One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

Leonardo da Vinci

Animal, One Day, Looks

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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Born: April 15, 1452
Died: May 2, 1519
Occupation: Painter
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