The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
LEONARDO DA VINCINothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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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Being willing is not enough. We must do.
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
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I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.
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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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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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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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To become an artist you have to be curious.
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.
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Fear arises sooner than anything else.
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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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