Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance 

polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, 

mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, 

cartographer, botanist, and writer.

                            Born: April 15, 1452, Vinci, Italy

                            Died: May 2, 1519, Amboise, France

                            Period: High Renaissance

                            Buried: Chapel of Saint-Hubert

                           Parents: Piero Fruosino di Antonio da                                                           Vinci, Caterin  

               
                                                    Quotes:

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

“My body will not be a tomb for other 

creatures.”

“Truth at last cannot be hidden. 

Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is 

to no purpose before so great a judge. 

Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden 

under the sun.”

“Many have made a trade of delusions and 

false miracles, deceiving the stupid 

multitudes.”

“Learning is the only thing the mind never 

exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”

“He is a poor pupil who does not go beyond 

  his master.”

“He who does not punish evil, commands it to    
be done.”

“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity 

from stagnation... even so does inaction sap 

the vigor of the mind.”

“It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive 

errors in the work of others more readily than 

in our own.”

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”

“Our life is made by the death of others”

“Where the spirit does not work with the 

hand, there is no art.”

“God sells us all things at the price of labor.” 

“All our knowledge has its origin in our 

   perceptions” 

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not

 when there is nothing left to add, but when 

  there is nothing left to take away.” 

“Nature never breaks her own laws”

“Who sows virtue reaps honor.”