The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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and these carry with them that part of man which dies . . .  
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294.  
(Of Funeral Rites, and Processions, and Lights, and Bells, and  
Followers.)  
The greatest honours will be paid to men, and much pomp, without  
their knowledge.  
[
Footnote: A facsimile of this text is on PI. CXVI below on the  
right, but the writing is larger than the other notes on the same  
sheet and of a somewhat different style. The ink is also of a  
different hue, as may be seen on the original sheet at Milan.]  
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295.  
(Of the Avaricious.)  
There will be many who will eagerly and with great care and  
solicitude follow up a thing, which, if they only knew its  
malignity, would always terrify them.  
(Of those men, who, the older they grow, the more avaricious they  
become, whereas, having but little time to stay, they should become  
more liberal.)  
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