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The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Travel, Giving
Leonardo (da Vinci), Irma A. Richter, Thereza Wells (2008). “Notebooks”, p.344, Oxford University Press

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

Leonardo da Vinci
Hate, Two, Giving

Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.

Leonardo da Vinci
Reading, Giving, Ears
Leonardo (da Vinci) (1958). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Travel, Giving
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.23, OUP Oxford

Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not to censure you. And if the answer is yes, correct the fault. If no, give the impression that you have not heard him, or if he is a man whom you respect, explain to him why he is mistaken.

Leonardo da Vinci
Men, Thinking, Giving

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

Leonardo da Vinci
Character, Expression, Giving

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