Leonardo da Vinci quotes - page 5

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language. View quote
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Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God. View quote
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Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue. View quote
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The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture. View quote
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O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain. View quote
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The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life. View quote
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The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it. View quote
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Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind. View quote
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The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark. View quote
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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead? (Leonardo da Vinci)
The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays. View quote
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Fear arises sooner than anything else. View quote
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A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow. View quote
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Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom. View quote
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Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness. View quote
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He who walks straight rarely falls. View quote
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The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery. View quote
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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. View quote
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Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love. View quote
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O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature. (Leonardo da Vinci)
One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another. View quote
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All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other. View quote
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If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it. View quote
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The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions. View quote
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