The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of...

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of...

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

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

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

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how...

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how...

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.