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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

«The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.»
«Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments»
«A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.»
«Intellectual passion drives out sensuality»
«Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.»
«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»
«Wisdom is the daughter of experience.»
«Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor»
«The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.»
«Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory»

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