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This compares the end of a day with the end of a life, and says peace grows from having used time well. It can be read as a call to live in a way that leaves little regret, especially when someone is taking stock at the close of a hard or busy day.
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About Leonardo da Vinci
Italian polymath of the High Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance, active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. Born Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, he is best known simply as Leonardo. His reputation first rested on painting, but his notebooks made him famous in a broader sense. In them, he set down drawings and notes on subjects ranging from anatomy and astronomy to botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. He is widely regarded as a genius who embodied the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his work helped shape European art.
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Books by Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo
1995
A Treatise on Painting
2002
Trattato della pittura
2005
Leonardo da Vinci, anatomist
2012
Literary works of Leonardo da Vinci
2002