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Against Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of…
- Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot…
- Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
- An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.
- If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck;…
- The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.
- It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as…
- Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will…
- Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will…
- Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it…
- Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will…
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