The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.  
The powers of Nature (1134-1139).  
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O admirable impartiality of Thine, Thou first Mover; Thou hast not  
permitted that any force should fail of the order or quality of its  
necessary results.  
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135.  
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.  
Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law  
of nature.  
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In many cases one and the same thing is attracted by two strong  
forces, namely Necessity and Potency. Water falls in rain; the earth  
absorbs it from the necessity for moisture; and the sun evaporates  
it, not from necessity, but by its power.  
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