“To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.”
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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“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“The man who is good at making an excuse, is seldom good at any thing else.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified, secondary source)“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“He who thinks little, errs much.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)