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Luca Pacioli Quotes

d. 1517 Italy

Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (c. 1445 – 1517) was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as bookkeeping and accounting.

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The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers.

Books should be closed each year, especially in partnership because frequent accounting makes for long friendship.

The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.

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