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Thoughts on Art and Life
Leonardo da Vinci
Top 10 Best Quotes
“as a well-spent day gives, joy in sleep so a well-spent life brings, joy in dying”
“I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils”
“Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting”
“sooner will there exist a body without a shadow than virtue unaccompanied by envy.”
“There will come a time when men look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
“Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.”
“Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.”
“You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.”
“Man discourseth greatly, and his discourse is for the greater part empty and false; the discourse of animals is small, but useful and true: slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.”
“So vile a thing is a lie that even if it spoke fairly of God it would take away somewhat from His divinity; and so excellent a thing is truth that if it praises the humblest things they are exalted.”
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