Leonardo da Vinci Quote: Virtue is our true wealth and the...

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life

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Select Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express what purpose is in the mind of each; otherwise your art will not be admirable.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Nature being capricious and taking pleasure in creating and producing a continuous sucession of lives and forms because she knows that they serve to increase her terrestrial substance, is more ready and swift in her creating than time is in destroying, and therefore she has ordained that many animals shall serve as food one for the other; and as this does not satisfy her desire she sends forth frequently certain noisome and pestilential vapours and continual plagues upon the vast accumulations and herds of animals and especially upon human beings who increase very rapidly because other animals do not feed upon them.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci