sábado, 9 de abril de 2011

Passages from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks

The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

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Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.

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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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As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.

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Just as food eaten without caring for it is turned into loathsome nourishment, so study without a taste for it spoils memory, by retaining nothing which it has taken in.

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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?

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