Leonardo da Vinci Quote: It is easier to resist at the...

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

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Faults are more easily recognized in the works of others than in our own.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life

It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci