Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci Quotes

• Our life is made by the death of others.

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• Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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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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• Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

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• Learning never exhausts the mind.

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• Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

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• It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

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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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• I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

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• I have wasted my hours.

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• I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

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• Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

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• He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

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• 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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• He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

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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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• Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

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• Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

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• Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

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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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