Leonardo da Vinci on Family
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, catalogued under family, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #203719: "The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it."
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #135358: "Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished."
7 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci on Family
"The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it."
"Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished."
"To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man."
"We see the most striking example of humility in the lamb which will submit to any animal; and when they are given for food to imprisoned lions they are as gentle to them as to their own mother, so that very often it has been seen that the lions forbear to kill them."
"O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments."
"These rules will enable you to have a free and sound judgment; since good judgment is born of clear understanding, and a clear understanding comes of reasons derived from sound rules, and sound rules are the issue of sound experience — the common mother of all the sciences and arts. Hence, bearing in mind the precepts of my rules, you will be able, merely by your amended judgment, to criticise and recognise every thing that is out of proportion in a work, whether in the perspective or in the figures or any thing else."
"King of the animals — as thou hast described him — I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest — because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth . But we do not go outside human matters in telling of one supreme wickedness, which does not happen among the animals of the earth, inasmuch as among them are found none who eat their own kind, unless through want of sense."