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• The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Work, Engineering

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• To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Good Man, Speak

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

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  As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fall, Artist, Simplicity

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• Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Artist

  Codice Atlantico 90

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Happy, Death

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ancient, Modern

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Children, Hands, Bread

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

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• Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Envy, Scare, Virtue

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1198, Library of Alexandria

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• Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ignorance, Eye, Mislead Us

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• In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Lying, Hands

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.185, OUP Oxford

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• You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

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  Skills, Scientist, Should

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• In time and with water, everything changes.

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  Inspirational, Water, Things Change

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• In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

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  Inspirational, Nature, Invention

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

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• It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Infinite, Finite, Ifs

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.959, Delphi Classics

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• That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Riches, Wealth, Rich

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.83, eKitap Projesi

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• Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Dark, Rocks

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.514, GENERAL PRESS

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• Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Passion, Intellectual, Sensuality

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• When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wisdom, Blessing, Trying

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• Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love Is, Great Love, Born

  "The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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• The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Good Man, Desire

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1203, Delphi Classics

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• Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Writing, Three

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.251, GENERAL PRESS

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• Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

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  Small Rooms, Dwelling, Discipline

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.182, GENERAL PRESS

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• Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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

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• The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

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  Cynical, Body, Tongue

  Dell' Anatomia Vol. 1, Ch. III

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• There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Science, Understanding

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Philosophy (p. 64)

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