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The beginnings and ends of sh...

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Leonardo da Vinci 630 quotes

I have been impressed with th...

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

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Who sows virtue reaps honor. ...

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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He who loves practice without...

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

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Art is never finished, only a...

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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In rivers, the water that you...

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

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Every action needs to be prom...

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

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As a well-spent day brings ha...

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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Just as food eaten without ap...

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

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There are four Powers: memory...

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

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Tears come from the heart and...

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

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Marriage is like putting your...

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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The truth of things is the ch...

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

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Why does the eye see a thing ...

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

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Nature is the source of all t...

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

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A beautiful body perishes, bu...

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

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In order to arrive at knowled...

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

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Time abides long enough for t...

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

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The human bird shall take his...

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

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The spirit desires to remain ...

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

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