When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Tag: Leonardo Da Vinci
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
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
Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.