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32: Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci • Part 1: The Inner Life of Genius

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The Desire of Good Men Is Knowledge

I know that many will call this a useless work. Many will believe that they can with reason-centrally, alleging that my proofs are contrary to the authority of certain men who are held in great reverence by their inexperienced judgments. The natural desire of good men is knowledge. And as the soul is more worthy than the body, so much are the soul's riches more worthy than those of the body. I wonder whether he will not put it to his nose like the ape and ask me whether it is something to eat. Men whose only desire is for material riches and luxury... They are entirely destitute of the desire of wisdom, the sustenance and the only true riches of the soul

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