Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument ― Leonardo da Vinci

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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.- Leonardo Da Vinci

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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. -Leonardo da Vinci

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Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

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Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

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The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

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Tomaso of Florence. known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress of masters, were laboring in vain. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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