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Leonardo da Vinci
April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519
Nationality: Italian
Category: Artist
Subcategory: Italian Artist

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

   

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

   

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.

   

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

   

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

   

Nature never breaks her own laws.

   

Our life is made by the death of others.

   

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

   

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.

   

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

   

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

   

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

   

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

   

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

   

Learning never exhausts the mind.

   

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

   

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

   

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

   

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

   

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

   

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