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The city will gain beauty worthy of its name and to you it will be useful by its revenues, and the eternal fame of its aggrandizement.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Shadow partakes of the nature of universal matter.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
No small hole can so modify the convergence of rays of light as to prevent, at a long distance, the transmission of the true form of the luminous body causing them.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Men will deal rude blows to that which is the cause of their life:—They will thrash the grain.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)
As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
The motive power is the cause of all life.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Our life is made by the death of others.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
The body of the atmosphere is full of infinite radiating pyramids produced by the objects existing in it.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
By the side of this passage is a sketch of a cage with a bird sitting in it.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)