"Old age takes in part savoury wisdom..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.
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“And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.”
“You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.”
“Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.”
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“The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.”
“I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'”
“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.”