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Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

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Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1519.

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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

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Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1519.

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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.

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Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1883.

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Man and animal are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

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Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1519.

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Perspective is the bridle and rudder of painting.

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Da Vinci, Leonardo. Italian Manuscripts, Bibliotheque Nationale. 1519, MS 2038, Bib. Nat. 13 r.

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Da Vinci, Leonardo. Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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This benign nature so provides that over all the world you find something to imitate.

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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.

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Man and animal are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

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