Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Tag: Leonardo Da Vinci
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It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.