Our life is made by the death of others.
LEONARDO DA VINCI I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Life well spent is long.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well...
LEONARDO DA VINCI All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as ar...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
LEONARDO DA VINCI A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
LEONARDO DA VINCI You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
LEONARDO DA VINCI It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
LEONARDO DA VINCI He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
LEONARDO DA VINCI All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
LEONARDO DA VINCI I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
LEONARDO DA VINCI Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigo...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
LEONARDO DA VINCI I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
LEONARDO DA VINCI I have wasted my hours.
LEONARDO DA VINCI How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they o...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The Medici created and destroyed me.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisph...
LEONARDO DA VINCI For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know i...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, co...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it refle...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
LEONARDO DA VINCI There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and t...
LEONARDO DA VINCI In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, i...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue...
LEONARDO DA VINCI It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
LEONARDO DA VINCI There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller tha...
LEONARDO DA VINCI People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to t...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
LEONARDO DA VINCI I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture...
LEONARDO DA VINCI He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
LEONARDO DA VINCI A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark exce...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
LEONARDO DA VINCI It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will loo...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for ther...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
LEONARDO DA VINCI I love those who can smile in trouble...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
LEONARDO DA VINCI You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand
LEONARDO DA VINCI The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musi...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposi...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does n...
LEONARDO DA VINCI He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
LEONARDO DA VINCI I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor
LEONARDO DA VINCI As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
LEONARDO DA VINCI I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdo...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which a...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The knowledge of all things is possible
LEONARDO DA VINCI You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more cl...
LEONARDO DA VINCI To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one pl...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Who sows virtue reaps honor.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect w...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
LEONARDO DA VINCI While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Learning never exhausts the mind.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
LEONARDO DA VINCI He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Water is the driving force of all nature.
LEONARDO DA VINCI As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
LEONARDO DA VINCI There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do no...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Art is never finished, only abandoned.
LEONARDO DA VINCI In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
LEONARDO DA VINCI For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there yo...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which al...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copi...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Nature never breaks her own laws.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminishe...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
LEONARDO DA VINCI Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by refl...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
LEONARDO DA VINCI If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you b...
LEONARDO DA VINCI As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Marriage: putting one's hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of drawing out an eel.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Life is an art, and you are the artist.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so doe...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion o...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Inequality is the cause of all local movements.
LEONARDO DA VINCI As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art
LEONARDO DA VINCI If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you b...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
LEONARDO DA VINCI As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication
LEONARDO DA VINCI Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.
LEONARDO DA VINCI once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up
LEONARDO DA VINCI One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
LEONARDO DA VINCI It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its mat...
LEONARDO DA VINCI A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sport...
LEONARDO DA VINCI God sells us all things at the price of labor.
LEONARDO DA VINCI And wisdom be the daughter of experience.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Priveste lumina si gandeste-te la frumsetea ei. Ceea ce vezi nu a fost mai inainte, iar ceea ce a fo...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Intellectual passion drives out sensuality
LEONARDO DA VINCI Learning never exhausts the mind
LEONARDO DA VINCI Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vig...
LEONARDO DA VINCI A well-spent day brings happy sleep
LEONARDO DA VINCI Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more cl...
LEONARDO DA VINCI He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year
LEONARDO DA VINCI Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
LEONARDO DA VINCI There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do no...
LEONARDO DA VINCI He turns not back who is bound to a star
LEONARDO DA VINCI The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it imitates.
LEONARDO DA VINCI I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts lon...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just u...
LEONARDO DA VINCI I have wasted my hours
LEONARDO DA VINCI I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by refl...
LEONARDO DA VINCI As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
LEONARDO DA VINCI When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for...
LEONARDO DA VINCI I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by refl...
LEONARDO DA VINCI The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the m...
LEONARDO DA VINCI You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's suc...
LEONARDO DA VINCI All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledg...
LEONARDO DA VINCI There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other.
LEONARDO DA VINCI As a day well spent brings blessed sleep, so a life well spent brings a blessed death.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does no...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Nature never breaks her own laws
LEONARDO DA VINCI Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
LEONARDO DA VINCI It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themsel...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgm...
LEONARDO DA VINCI People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Wisdom is the daughter of experience
LEONARDO DA VINCI The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useles...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Nitre, vitriol, cinnabar, alum, salt ammoniac, sublimated mercury, rock salt, alcali salt, common sa...
LEONARDO DA VINCI When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of...
LEONARDO DA VINCI I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.
LEONARDO DA VINCI A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is not...
LEONARDO DA VINCI All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
LEONARDO DA VINCI Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of scienc...
LEONARDO DA VINCI To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, moth...
LEONARDO DA VINCI To become an artist you have to be curious.
LEONARDO DA VINCI As you cannot do what you want,
Want what you can do
LEONARDO DA VINCI Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
LEONARDO DE VINCI It does really affect you seeing him like this without life,
ALESSIO VINCI Many, many people are involved, ... It is not clear whether one side is more responsible.
ALESSIO VINCI About one out of five voters cast their ballots for Milosevic in Serbia's parliamentary elections in...
ALESSIO VINCI The people in the street -- a few dozen on Thursday night -- are a reminder of the fact that Milosev...
ALESSIO VINCI He called everyone into his office in the federal palace, ... And all the differences between the tw...
ALESSIO VINCI They are not the biggest of friends. They do not trust each other very much.
ALESSIO VINCI The failure of the first attempt to arrest Milosevic is an indication that the Serbian authorities a...
ALESSIO VINCI There are bodies all over here,
ALESSIO VINCI No major decision is expected soon. The tough bargaining is likely to last until mid-December -- Ber...
ALESSIO VINCI The pontiff reiterated his opposition to stem cell research
ALESSIO VINCI Pizza with pineapple, that's a cake...Pizza with cucumber, it's an insult.
ALESSIO VINCI