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How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

~Leonardo Da Vinci

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I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

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Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

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Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

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The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

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Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

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Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

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Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Artist

Born: April 15th, 1452

Died: May 2nd, 1519

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