Leonardo da Vinci on greatness
“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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The knowledge of all things is possible.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci 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.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Being willing is not enough. We must do.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci The five senses are the ministers of the soul.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.
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