“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”
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)“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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“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Happy is the house that shelters a friend!”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)