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By Leonardo da Vinci
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
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- The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, compiled and edited from the original manuscripts by Jean Paul Richter, vol. 2, 1883 · Richter no. 1176, p. 294
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1883 first edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington; English translation by Jean Paul Richter)
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From Leonardo's notebooks, in the English translation by Jean Paul Richter (The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, London: Sampson Low, 1883, no. 1176, in the chapter on morals). Richter prints two versions of the thought (nos. 1175 and 1176); this is the second. Leonardo wrote it in Italian.