Leonardo da Vinci on greatness
“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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Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Nothing is hidden under the sun.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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Dick CavettDick Cavett It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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