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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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• Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love Is, Great Love, Born

  "The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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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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• That which has no limitations, has no form.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Form, Limitation

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.41, GENERAL PRESS

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• He who thinks little errs much.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

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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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  Learning never exhausts the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

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• How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Order, Records, Might

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• Not to anticipate is already to moan.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Anticipation, Anticipate

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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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• The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Soul, Five Senses, Ministers

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.335, GENERAL PRESS

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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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• Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Hands, Doe

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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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• He turns not back who is bound to a star.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Stars, Quitting

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.246, OUP Oxford

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• Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1155, Library of Alexandria

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• All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Knowledge, Perception, Offspring

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.969, Delphi Classics

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• Every man at three years old is half his height

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Years, Height

  Irma A. Richter (ed.) 'Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' (World's Classics, 1952) p. 149

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• We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Promise, Disappoint

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Vex, Matter

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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  Water is the driving force of all nature.

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  Nature, Reality, Water

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• It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Experience, Labor

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• The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Soul, Body

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.106, OUP Oxford

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• We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mistake, Wells, Knows

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

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• Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Envy, Scare, Virtue

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1198, Library of Alexandria

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