Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery;… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
