Italian - Artist | April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci
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There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
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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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For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
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