Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

—Leonardo da Vinci

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About Leonardo da Vinci

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), better known as Leonardo da Vinci, was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a...

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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

—Leonardo da Vinci

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

—Leonardo da Vinci

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

—Leonardo da Vinci

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

—Leonardo da Vinci

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

—Leonardo da Vinci

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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

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