Exhaustion

Learning never exhausts the mind.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

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Well-employed

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings blessed death.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

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Happened to things

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

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Mastery

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

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Simplicity

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

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