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• The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Imagination, Rudders, Faculty

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Sake, Reason, Enjoy

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Design

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• It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Understanding, Blame, Praise

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.67, Lulu.com

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• While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Death, Eulogy

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.260, OUP Oxford

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• An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Artist, Small Rooms, Space

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• The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Pain, Feelings, Deeper

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• Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Obstacles, Rigor, Destroyed

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• Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Soul, Divine

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• I love those who can smile in trouble.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Strength, Smile

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• An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Two, Weakness, Arches

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• Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Light, Sight

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.345, Delphi Classics

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• Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fate, Moon, Oysters

  "The 48 Laws of Power". Book by Robert Greene ( p. 33), 2000.

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• He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Character, Years

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.444, GENERAL PRESS

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• He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Evil, Doe, Done

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• It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Fire, Clouds

  Quoted in Irma A Richter (ed) Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1977).

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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.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Time, Rivers

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.258, OUP Oxford

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• Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Arundel MSS British Museum (transl. Edward MacCurdy in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1)

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• Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Light, Looks

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• Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Crush

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

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  Learning never exhausts the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

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• Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspired, Vain, Labor

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• To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Soul, Watches, Body

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• Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Disease, Cures, Advertising And Marketing

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