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.
LEONARDO DA VINCINothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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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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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.
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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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Water is the driving force in nature.
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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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The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
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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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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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We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one’s own.
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