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«He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.»
«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.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
The Present
| Keywords:
first water, passed, present, present time, rivers, River The, The Last, The Water, touch, water
«The smallest feline is a masterpiece.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
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feline, felines, smallest, the smallest
«I have wasted my hours»
«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.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
devise, devises, devising, direct, invention, inventions, lacking, simple, subtleties, subtlety, superfluous
«Life well spent is long.»
«Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
bears, bear on, bear up, beyond any doubt, beyond doubt, darkness, doubt, falsehood, light, relation, relation to
«People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.»
«As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
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confounding, confounds, divided, divided up, falls, kingdom, sapped, sapping, saps, studies
«Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.»
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