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There is no certainty in sciences where one of the mathematical sciences cannot be applied, or which are not in relation with these mathematics.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Tristo é lo discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
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He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.
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Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.
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He who offends others, does not secure himself.
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The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.
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Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.
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Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Fire may be represented as the destroyer of all sophistry, and as the image and demonstration of truth; because it is light and drives out darkness which conceals all essences [or subtle things].
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When you wish to represent a man speaking to a number of people, consider the matter of which he has to treat and adapt his action to the subject.
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O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
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Light is the chaser away of darkness. Shade is the obstruction of light.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Such as harm is when it hurts me not, is good which avails me not.
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