Leonardo da Vinci

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death

death


Leonardo da Vinci

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

art


Leonardo da Vinci

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

art


Leonardo da Vinci

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

art


Leonardo da Vinci

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

business


Leonardo da Vinci

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

change


Leonardo da Vinci

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

courage


Leonardo da Vinci

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

death


Leonardo da Vinci

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

death


Leonardo da Vinci

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

dreams


Leonardo da Vinci

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

experience


Leonardo da Vinci

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

fear


Leonardo da Vinci

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

god


Leonardo da Vinci

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

hope


Leonardo da Vinci

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

imagination


Leonardo da Vinci

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

knowledge


Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

knowledge


Leonardo da Vinci

Learning never exhausts the mind.

learning


Leonardo da Vinci

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

learning


Leonardo da Vinci

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

life


Leonardo da Vinci

Life well spent is long.

life


Leonardo da Vinci

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

life


Leonardo da Vinci

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

love


Leonardo da Vinci

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

marriage


Leonardo da Vinci

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

men


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