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Leonardo da Vinci on New Year

1452–1519 Italy

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O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

By the side of this passage is a sketch of a cage with a bird sitting in it.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

One's thoughts turn towards Hope.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Men are in error when they lament the flight of time, accusing it of being too swift, and not perceiving that it is sufficient as it passes; but good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes things long past to seem present.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

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