"Our life is made by the death of others.












Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.
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.
"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to...
"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
"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...
"Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
"They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to ...
"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.
"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
"No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.
"Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.