Quote

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

Leonardo da Vinci

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
Anatomist
Architect
Astronomer
Botanist
Caricaturist
Chemist
Civil Engineer
Composer
Diplomat
Engineer
Inventor
Mathematician
Musician
Things
Sell
Sells
Price
Thou
Labor
Faith
Dost
Work
Laborers
Good
Labour

More quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Image
Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
A long life is a life well spent.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough we must apply. Being willing is not enough we must do.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same
Leonardo da Vinci
Image
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.
Leonardo da Vinci