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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the...

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail...

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of...

The Medici created and destroyed me.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

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.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

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.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

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

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

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