Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Quotes from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci — Leonardo da Vinci
1452–1519 Italy
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Shadow partakes of the nature of universal matter.
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As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
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Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
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Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.
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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
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The motive power is the cause of all life.
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body.
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Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.
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By the side of this passage is a sketch of a cage with a bird sitting in it.
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The body which is nearest to the light casts the largest shadow, and why?
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Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master.
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