Leonardo da Vinci vs. Epictetus
Read 20 entries attributed to Leonardo da Vinci alongside 20 attributed to Epictetus. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Leonardo da Vinci alongside 20 attributed to Epictetus. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: epistemology, human nature, religion, life, philosophy, war, knowledge. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
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 Epictetus, entry #87: "Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind."
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Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519
Leonardo da Vinci (1452) was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance — painter, scientist, engineer, mathematician, and writer.
"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 t…"
#Ethics"Su per lago di Como di ver Lamagnia (Alemagna, cioè Germania) è valle di Ciavenna dove la Mera fiume mette in esso lago. Qui si truova montagni sterili e alt…"
#Science"Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so …"
#Science"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or…"
#Aesthetics"3 miglia più in là si trova li edifici della vena del rame e dello argento, presso una terra detta Pra Santo Petro e vene di ferro e cose fantastiche. ( Anci…"
#Science"The painter strives and competes with nature...There is nothing in all nature without its reason. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience..."
#Epistemology"3 miles further on are the buildings of the vein of copper and silver, near a land called Prato San Pietro and veins of iron and fantastic things. (paper F.573)"
#Science"Fa vini potenti e assai, … e ‘l vino vale el più uno soldo il boccale e la libbra della vitella un soldo e ‘l sale 10 dinari, e ‘l simile il burro, ed è la l…"
#Science"As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long."
#Human Nature"truovasi di miglio i(n) miglio bone osteriee. ( Ancient Italian)"
#Science"Look at the grace and sweetness of men and women in the street..."
#Science"Thou, O God, sellest us all benefits, at the cost of our toil...."
#Religion"He makes powerful and very strong wines, … and the wine is worth more than a penny per jug and the pound of veal a penny and the salt 10 denarii, and so is t…"
#Science"All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rush…"
#life"Seeing that I can find no subject specially useful or pleasing — since the men who have come before me have taken for their own every useful or necessary the…"
#philosophy"Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man."
#war"To enjoy—to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason."
#love"The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection."
#art"Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it."
#life"Oh! human stupidity, do you not perceive that, though you have been with yourself all your life, you are not yet aware of the thing you possess most of, that…"
#knowledgeEpictetus
50 – 138
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia and lived in Rome until his banishment, after which he spent the rest of his life in Nicopolis in northwestern Greece.
"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind."
#Epistemology"Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder."
#Epistemology"O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if …"
#Religion"In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and …"
#Human Nature"No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let…"
#Human Nature"When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is …"
#Religion"Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true fa…"
#Religion"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle."
#Epistemology"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater."
#Philosophy"Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these about whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish t…"
#Philosophy"Only the educated are free."
#Human Nature"If the room is smoky, if only moderately, I will stay; if there is too much smoke I will go. Remember this, keep a firm hold on it, the door is always open."
#Philosophy"Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you; for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them. And …"
#life"When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move t…"
#language"Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!"
#life"If it is my interest to have a farm, it is my interest to take it away from my neighbour; if it is my interest to have a cloak, it is my interest also to ste…"
#war"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
#freedom"Even as bad actors cannot sing alone, but only in chorus: so some cannot walk alone. Man, if thou art aught, strive to walk alone and hold converse with your…"
#knowledge"What wouldst thou be found doing when overtaken by Death? If I might choose, I would be found doing some deed of true humanity, of wide import, beneficent an…"
#power"You are a little soul, carrying a corpse."
#religion