The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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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Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
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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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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.
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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
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I love those who can smile in trouble.
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.
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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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Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.
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The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.
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The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.
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Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
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Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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Time stays long enough for those who use it.
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Fear arises sooner than anything else.
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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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All thoughts start from emotions.
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You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
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The knowledge of all things is possible.
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