Leonardo da Vinci

Italy
15 Apr 1452 // 2 May 1519
Scientist / Man of Arts

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Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man
Fear arises sooner than anything else
We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...
To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings
Be not false about the past
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly
The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude
Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom
It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last
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