“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)
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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“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.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.”
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“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Half the truth is often a great lie.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)