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.
LEONARDO DA VINCII thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.
More Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
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Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
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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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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
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The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
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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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Nature never breaks her own laws.
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Time stays long enough for those who use it.
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It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
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Realize that everything connects to everything else.
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Water is the driving force in nature.
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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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Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!
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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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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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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.
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Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.
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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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The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.
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