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" It is better to imitate ancient than modern work. "

Leonardo da Vinci

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" Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. "

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" He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. "

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" I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense. "

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" Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. "

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" Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. "

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" Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. "

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" The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. "

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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. "

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" The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. "

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" To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. "

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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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" For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all. "

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