Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the dangers of deception and the gullibility of people who believe in falsehoods.
Leonardo Da Vinci critiques the prevalence of deceit in society, suggesting that many individuals exploit the ignorance of the masses by peddling illusions and so-called miracles. This warns against the ease with which people can be misled and the importance of critical thinking in discerning truth from falsehood.
In practice
During a discussion about misleading advertisements.
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.
These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.
Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Things must be felt with the heart.
There you go, Harry!β Ron shouted over the noise. βYou werenβt being thick after all β you were showing moral fiber!
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