Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci Quotes

• I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

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• Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

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• Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

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• Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation … even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

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  For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return.

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• You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

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• You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

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• Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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• Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

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• Water is the driving force of all nature.

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• Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

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• There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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

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• The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

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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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• The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

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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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• Nature never breaks her own laws.

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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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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (81)

Birth:	15th April, 1492
Death:	2nd May, 1519
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Professor

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".

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