A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
LEONARDO DA VINCIPeople reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
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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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I love those who can smile in trouble.
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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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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Being willing is not enough. We must do.
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My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
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Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
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He who walks straight rarely falls.
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
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The greater the man’s soul, the deeper he loves.
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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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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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