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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

1452–1519 Italy

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, inventor, engineer, scientist, sculptor, and musician. His best known painting is the Mona Lisa.

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Also known as: Da Vinci, Da vinci, Leonardo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo da venci, Leonardo da vinci

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Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the Dead.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

There is no certainty in sciences where one of the mathematical sciences cannot be applied, or which are not in relation with these mathematics.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.

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Tristo é lo discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro.

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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

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The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

He who offends others, does not secure himself.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.

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Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity — by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles...

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leonardo da Vinci (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.