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LEONARDO DA VINCI
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Walter Isaacson


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Soliloquy of a Stone

Soliloquy of a Stone
Soliloquy of Leonardo da Vinci


. . . . . Looking at the crowd of stones along the road below, it decided wanted to join them. “What am I doing here among these plants?” the stone asked. I want to live in the company of my fellow stones.” So it rolled down to the others. “After a while,” Leonardo recounted, “it found itself in continual distress from the wheels of the carts, the iron hoofs of horses, and the feet of the passers-by. One rolled it over, another trod upon it. Sometimes the stone raised itself up a little as it lay covered with mud or the dung of some animal, but it was in vain that it looked up at the spot whence it has come as a place of solitude and tranquil peace.” Leonardo drew a moral: “This is what happens to those who leave a life of solitary contemplation and choose to come to dwell in cities among people full of infinite evil” ~ Page 24

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