Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci Quotes

• Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

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• As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

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• As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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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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• All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

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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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• Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

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• Life well spent is long.

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• While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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• Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

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• Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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• God sells us all things at the price of labor.

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• 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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• He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.

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• The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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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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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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