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

January 1, 1970

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Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations, as translated by Edward MacCurdy.