"Our life is made by the death of others.












Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

More Leonardo da Vinci quotes
"All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
"He who does not value life does not deserve it.
"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
"Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death
"Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.
"Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death o...
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
"Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
"Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.
"That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us...
"All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
"Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.