The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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are married.)  
Men will come out their graves turned into flying creatures; and  
they will attack other men, taking their food from their very hand  
or table. (As Flies.)  
Many will there be who, flaying their mother, will tear the skin  
from her back. (Husbandmen tilling the Earth.)  
Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the Dead. (Who read  
good works and obey them.)  
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Feathers will raise men, as they do birds, towards heaven (that is,  
by the letters which are written with quills.)  
The works of men's hands will occasion their death. (Swords and  
Spears.)  
Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear. (That is  
they will be miserable lest they should fall into misery.)  
Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue  
that they will restore to man his lost memory; that is papyrus  
[sheets] which are made of separate strips and have preserved the  
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