Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in co

Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, 1508

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