Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Leonardo da Vinci Sayings

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep”

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

Fear arises sooner than any thing else.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

He who takes the snake by the tail will presently be bitten by it

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Truth here makes Falsehood torment lying tongues

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

When you are alone you are all your own.

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom

“You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.”