Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the…

Leonardo da Vinci
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Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings. ✨ Leonardo (da Vinci) (1971). The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
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