“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.”
Leonardo da Vinci (verified)
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Primary source)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Jean Paul Richter, is a thematic anthology of Leonardo’s writings on art, science, anatomy, engineering, and philosophy—revealing the genius’s insights, observations, and inventions through his own reflective and analytical prose.
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“A man is worthy of praise or blame solely on account of those actions which lie within his power to do or not to do.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.”
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