734 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.

Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

Ogni nostra cognitione prīcipia da sentimēti. All our knowledge has its origin in our preceptions.