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  -- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)...
• Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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  and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision....
• EXCERPTS FROM LIFE'S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK, VOLUMES I AND II 35.
  Plant a tree on your birthday. 47. Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade....
• In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
  In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce?...
• In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
  In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace -- and what did they produce?...
• Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci
• Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...