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Great Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- 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…
- Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that…
- If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.
- There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
- You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
- For in truth great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved.
- Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The…
- You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be…
- In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere…
- It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.
- The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.
- One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great…
- 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…
- The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
- Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a…
- Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true,…
- Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and…
- Among the great things which are to be found among us, the being of nothingness is the greatest.
- For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love 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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