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Leonardo da Vinci

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...the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci
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BEN SHNEIDERMAN
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ANUJ SOMANY
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were gi...
H. JACKSON BROWN JR.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were gi...
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR.
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When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were gi...
H. JACKSON BROWN
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. On Leonardo Da Vinci
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR
Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the s...
SHANNON L. ALDER
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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OLIVER BOWDEN
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Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA
Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN
For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your...
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To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa...
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
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POPE JOHN PAUL II
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
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POPE JOHN PAUL II
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
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You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
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Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
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The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman?

"Everyone misses it, o...
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DAVID S. GOYER
The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK
I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK
He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK
I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK
I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK
Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK
I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK
I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK
It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK
Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK
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SAINT IGNATIUS
I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go...
SAINT IGNATIUS
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SAINT IGNATIUS
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SAINT IGNATIUS
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SAINT IGNATIUS
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierar...
SAINT IGNATIUS
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SAINT IGNATIUS
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of w...
SAINT IGNATIUS
In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingra...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
SAINT IGNATIUS
In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju...
SAINT IGNATIUS
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
SAINT IGNATIUS
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
SAINT IGNATIUS
May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
SAINT IGNATIUS
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Je...
SAINT IGNATIUS
If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
SAINT BERNARD
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ...
SAINT BERNARD
Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do...
SAINT BERNARD
Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav...
SAINT BERNARD
I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C...
SAINT BERNARD
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure...
SAINT BERNARD
A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ...
SAINT BERNARD
Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in...
SAINT BERNARD
Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ...
SAINT BERNARD
That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
SAINT BERNARD
There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin...
SAINT BERNARD

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Our life is made by the death of others.
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Life well spent is long.
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The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
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It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
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He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
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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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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
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The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.
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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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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
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I have wasted my hours.
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How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they o...
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The Medici created and destroyed me.
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Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisph...
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For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know i...
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Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, co...
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The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it refle...
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and t...
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Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
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Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
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Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.
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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
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The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, i...
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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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It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
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There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller tha...
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People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to t...
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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
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It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture...
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He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark exce...
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se...
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
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Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
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You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musi...
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposi...
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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does n...
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He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
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Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
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The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.
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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
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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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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdo...
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Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which a...
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Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before ...
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The knowledge of all things is possible
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
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The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his ...
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
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Who sows virtue reaps honor.
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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass...
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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Water is the driving force of all nature.
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes...
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there yo...
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Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which al...
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused ...
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Nature never breaks her own laws.
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The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminishe...
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Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and ...
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just ...
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you b...
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself...
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Marriage: putting one's hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of drawing out an eel.
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Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.
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Life is an art, and you are the artist.
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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so doe...
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Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion o...
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Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
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Inequality is the cause of all local movements.
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art
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The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
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Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication
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Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.
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once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
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Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
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Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in...
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The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its mat...
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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
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Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sport...
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God sells us all things at the price of labor.
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And wisdom be the daughter of experience.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality
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Learning never exhausts the mind
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vig...
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A well-spent day brings happy sleep
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year
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Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
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There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do no...
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He turns not back who is bound to a star
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The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it imitates.
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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts lon...
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just u...
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I have wasted my hours
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by refl...
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for...
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The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the m...
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You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's suc...
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There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other.
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As a day well spent brings blessed sleep, so a life well spent brings a blessed death.
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does no...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Nature never breaks her own laws
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themsel...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgm...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Wisdom is the daughter of experience
LEONARDO DA VINCI
He who does not value life does not deserve it.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useles...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Nitre, vitriol, cinnabar, alum, salt ammoniac, sublimated mercury, rock salt, alcali salt, common sa...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is not...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of scienc...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, moth...
LEONARDO DA VINCI
To become an artist you have to be curious.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
LEONARDO DE VINCI
It does really affect you seeing him like this without life,
ALESSIO VINCI
Many, many people are involved, ... It is not clear whether one side is more responsible.
ALESSIO VINCI
About one out of five voters cast their ballots for Milosevic in Serbia's parliamentary elections in...
ALESSIO VINCI
The people in the street -- a few dozen on Thursday night -- are a reminder of the fact that Milosev...
ALESSIO VINCI
He called everyone into his office in the federal palace, ... And all the differences between the tw...
ALESSIO VINCI
They are not the biggest of friends. They do not trust each other very much.
ALESSIO VINCI
The failure of the first attempt to arrest Milosevic is an indication that the Serbian authorities a...
ALESSIO VINCI
There are bodies all over here,
ALESSIO VINCI
No major decision is expected soon. The tough bargaining is likely to last until mid-December -- Ber...
ALESSIO VINCI
The pontiff reiterated his opposition to stem cell research
ALESSIO VINCI
Pizza with pineapple, that's a cake...Pizza with cucumber, it's an insult.
ALESSIO VINCI