The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
LEONARDO DA VINCIMan 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.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
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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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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man’s mind.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
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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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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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The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
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As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do.
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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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