The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Polemics, have been included in this section as occur as independent  
texts in the original MSS. Several moral reflections have already  
been given in Vol. I, in section "Allegorical representations,  
Mottoes and Emblems". Others will be found in the following section.  
Nos. 9 to 12, Vol. I, are also passages of an argumentative  
character. It did not seem requisite to repeat here these and  
similar passages, since their direct connection with the context is  
far closer in places where they have appeared already, than it would  
be here.  
I.  
PHILOSOPHICAL MAXIMS.  
Prayers to God (1132. 1133).  
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132.  
I obey Thee Lord, first for the love I ought, in all reason to bear  
Thee; secondly for that Thou canst shorten or prolong the lives of  
men.  
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133.  
A PRAYER.  
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