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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

«Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.»
«No member needs so great a number of muscles as the tongue; this exceeds all the rest in the number of its movements»
«Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.»
«Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.»
«The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.»
«Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.»
«I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men»
«Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.»
«Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.»
«Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.»

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