“The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.”

— Leonardo Da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

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Italian Renaissance polymath 1452–1519

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