Leonardo da Vinci on leaving
“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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Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Life without love, is no life at all.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.
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Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci He who thinks little errs much.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci 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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The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.
Linkin ParkLinkin Park And when you’re feeling empty, keep me memory, and leave out all the rest, leave out all the rest.
Linkin ParkLinkin Park Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
D. H. LawrenceD. H. Lawrence The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.
Og MandinoOg Mandino Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
MaimonidesMaimonides Man is a mistake. He must go.
D. H. LawrenceD. H. Lawrence Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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