Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Leonardo da Vinci

Showing quotations 1 to 7 of 7 total As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. Leonardo da Vinci 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 have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. Leonardo da Vinci Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. Leonardo da VinciYou do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. Leonardo da VinciIntellectual passion dries out sensuality. Leonardo da Vinci, The NotebooksIron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci, The NotebooksSupreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly. Leonardo da Vinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy

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