Leonardo da Vinci

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• 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.

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

  • Thinking

• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

  • Intelligence

• Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

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