Leonardo da Vinci on Justice
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, catalogued under justice, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and filed under "justice" 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 #74354: "Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature."
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, entry #166735: "The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness."
7 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci on Justice
"Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature."
"The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness."
"What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art."
"An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it."
"Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity — by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles..."
"The earth is not in the centre of the Sun's orbit nor at the centre of the universe, but in the centre of its companion elements, and united with them. And any one standing on the moon, when it and the sun are both beneath us, would see this our earth and the element of water upon it just as we see the moon, and the earth would light it as it lights us."
"Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. Men wrongly complain of Experience; with great abuse they accuse her of leading them astray but they set Experience aside, turning from it with complaints as to our ignorance causing us to be carried away by vain and foolish desires to promise ourselves, in her name, things that are not in her power; saying that she is fallacious. Men are unjust in complaining of innocent Experience, constantly accusing her of error and of false evidence."