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The body which is nearest to the light casts the largest shadow, and why?
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
All objects project their whole image and likeness, diffused and mingled in the whole of the atmosphere, opposite to themselves.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
You can find good taverns from mile to mile.
Codex Atlanticus (1478)
Tell me if anything was ever done.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Disgrace should be represented upside down, because all her deeds are contrary to God and tend to hell.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)
Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)
The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Feathers shall raise men towards the heaven even as they do the birds:—That is by the letters written by their quills.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)
Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead:—The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)
The wind which passes through the skins of animals will make men leap up:—That is the bagpipes, which cause men to dance.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)
Where there is most power of feeling, there of martyrs is the greatest martyr.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)
The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)
Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Science, knowledge of the things that are possible present and past; prescience, knowledge of the things which may come to pass.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)