Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
LEONARDO DA VINCIPeople of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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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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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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
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The knowledge of all things is possible.
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Time stays long enough for those who use it.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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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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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.
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Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
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Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!
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A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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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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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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Being willing is not enough. We must do.
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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The moment is timeless.
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The greater the man’s soul, the deeper he loves.
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Life without love, is no life at all.
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People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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