Italian - Artist | April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519
Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci
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It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
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The Medici created and destroyed me.
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
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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.
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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.
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Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.
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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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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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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
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Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.
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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.
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