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 y… - Leonardo da Vinci
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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.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and musician. His best known painting is the Mona Lisa.
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Portrait adapted from
Wikimedia Commons, Attributed to Francesco Melzi (Public domain / CC0)
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
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Leonardo
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da Vinci
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Leonard
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Léonard
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Leonardo Da Vinci
O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
The ball of snow when, as it rolls, it descends from the snowy mountains, increases in size as it falls.
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