{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/1177.htm","path":"aor/dv/1177.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/1177.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nOn Mount Etna the words freeze in your mouth and you may make ice of them.\nJust as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.\nYou do ill if you praise, and still worse if you reprove in a matter you do not understand.\nWhen Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.\n294:637 2: There is no clue to explain this strange sentence.","title":"Vol. II: XIX. Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations: 1177.","type":"page"}