95 ordspråk av Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci föddes den
15 April 1452 och dog den 2 Mai
1519 - whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How
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If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct; and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.
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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.
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Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality
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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 vigors of the mind.
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.
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It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
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Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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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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Learning never exhausts the mind
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Learning never exhausts the mind
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