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Leonardo da Vinci
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Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect. ✨ The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.
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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain ✨ Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, p.329, GENERAL PRESS
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything. ✨ Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). The Notebooks of L … ▶
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All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. ✨ Leonardo da Vinci (2014). Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated), p.969, Delphi Classics
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Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect. ✨ The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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