O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.
More Quotes from Leonardo da Vinci:
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.... the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment.... And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.Leonardo da Vinci
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.
Leonardo da Vinci
Man has great power of speech, but the greater part thereof is empty and deceitful. The animals have little, but that little is useful and true and better is a small and certain thing than a great falsehood.
Leonardo da Vinci
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci
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