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lying tongues.

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/697.html A felled tree which is shooting
again.

I am still hopeful.
A falcon,
Time.

[Footnote: I. _Albero tagliato_. This emblem was displayed during
the Carnival at Florence in 1513. See VASARI VI, 251, ed. MILANESI
1881. But the coincidence is probably accidental.]

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/696.html Not to disobey.

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/695.html Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil
Report.
This Evil Report is born of life.

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/694.html Short liberty.

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/693.html Fame alone raises herself to Heaven,
because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Disgrace should be represented upside
down, because all her deeds are contrary to
God and tend to hell.

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/692.html Prudence Strength.

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/691.html Love, Fear, and Esteem,--
Write these on three stones. Of servants.

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/690.html Constancy does not begin, but is that
which perseveres.

[Footnote: A drawing in red chalk, also rubbed, which stands in the
original in the middle of this text, seems to me to be intended for
a sword hilt, held in a fist.]

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/689.html Thus are base unions sundered.

[Footnote: A much blurred sketch is on the page by this text. It
seems to represent an unravelled plait or tissue.]

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/688.html On this side Adam and Eve on the other;
O misery of mankind, of how many things do
you make yourself the slave for money!

[Footnote: See PI. LXIV. The figures of Adam and Eve in the clouds
here alluded to would seem to symbolise their superiority to all
earthly needs.]

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/687.html TO REPRESENT INGRATITUDE.

When the sun appears
which dispels darkness in
general, you put out the
light which dispelled it
for you in particular
for your need and convenience.

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/686.html This shall be placed in the
hand of Ingratitude.
Wood nourishes the fire that
consumes it.

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/685.html Movement will cease before we are
weary
of being useful.

Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.
Death sooner than I am never weary of
weariness. being useful,
In serving others I is a motto for carnval.
cannot do enough. Without fatigue.

No labour is
sufficient to tire me.

Hands into which
ducats and precious
stones fall like snow; they
never become tired by serving,
but this service is only for its
utility and not for our I am never weary
own benefit. of being useful.

Naturally
nature has so disposed me.

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/684.html Truth the sun.
falsehood a mask.
innocence,
malignity.

Fire destroys falsehood,
that is sophistry, and
restores truth, driving out
darkness.

Fire may be represented as the destroy of
all sophistry, and as the
image and demonstration of truth;
because it is light and drives
out darkness which conceals
all essences [or subtle things].

[Footnote: See PI. LXIII. L. 1-8 are in the middle of the page; 1.
9-14 to the right below; 1. 15-22 below in the middle column. The
rest of the text is below the sketches on the left. There are some
other passages on this page relating to geometry.]

TRUTH.

Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit;
and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

Truth at last cannot be hidden.
Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is
to no purpose before
so great a judge.
Falsehood puts on a mask.
Nothing is hidden under the sun.

Fire is to represent truth because it
destroys all sophistry and lies; and the
mask is for lying and falsehood
which conceal truth.

]]> http://interconnected.org/home/more/davinci/683.html Ivy is [a type] of longevity.

[Footnote: In the original there is, near this text, a sketch of a
coat wreathed above the waist with ivy.]

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