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Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?

Leonardo da Vinci

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Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath

April 15th, 1452 - May 2nd, 1519

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