The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and  
covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The  
three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented;  
touch and taste not at all. Smell is connected with taste in dogs  
and other gluttonous animals.  
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I reveal to men the origin of the first, or perhaps second cause of  
their existence.  
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Lust is the cause of generation.  
Appetite is the support of life. Fear or timidity is the  
prolongation of life and preservation of its instruments.  
The laws of nutrition and the support of life (843-848).  
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HOW THE BODY OF ANIMALS IS CONSTANTLY DYING AND BEING RENEWED.  
The body of any thing whatever that takes nourishment constantly  
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