You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

—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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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

—Leonardo da Vinci

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Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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The time will come when men… will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

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Water is the driving force of all nature.

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Praise the young and they will flourish.

—Irish Proverb

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".

—Henry Ward Beecher

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Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

—Alexander Pope

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