Leonardo da Vinci on Ethics
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, catalogued under Ethics, with dates where available.
This page displays 5 quotations attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and filed under "Ethics" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #119: "Up Lake Como towards Germany is the Chavenna Valley where the River Mera") enters the lake. Here are barren and very high mountains with large rocks ... In these mountains the wat…"
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #127489: "Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory."
5 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci on Ethics
"Up Lake Como towards Germany is the Chavenna Valley where the River Mera") enters the lake. Here are barren and very high mountains with large rocks ... In these mountains the water birds called maragon. Here are born firs, larches and pines, fallow deer, ibexes, chamois and terrible bears. It cannot be mounted except by walking on all fours. There go the mountain men in snowy weather with great ingenuity to bring the bears down the mountains. These narrow mountains have the river in between. They are left and right for a space of 20 miles all like this."
"Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory."
"Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue."
"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."
"You can find good taverns from mile to mile."