Leonardo da Vinci Quote: We should not desire the impossible.

We should not desire the impossible.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

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Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci