Quotes from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci — Leonardo da Vinci
1452–1519 Italy
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The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.
The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
Every quantity is intellectually conceivable as infinitely divisible.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.
Every instrument requires to be made by experience.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
The painter strives and competes with nature.
I ask at what part of its curved motion the moving cause will leave the thing moved and moveable.
Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
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