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

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

   

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

   

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

   

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

   

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

   

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

   

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

   

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

   

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

   

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

   

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

   

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