Italian - Artist | April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519
The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.
Leonardo da Vinci
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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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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
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The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
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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; so with present time.
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
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The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
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