I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
LEONARDO DA VINCIA painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one’s own.
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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.
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Water is the driving force in nature.
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Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
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Life without love, is no life at all.
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Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
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I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
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Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
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Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.
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The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
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