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Leonardo da Vinci on Wedding

1452–1519 Italy

← All quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

7 quotes

The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Love, Fear, and Esteem, — Write these on three stones.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

To enjoy—to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

I obey Thee Lord, first for the love I ought, in all reason to bear Thee; secondly for that Thou canst shorten or prolong the lives of men.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

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.