Leonardo Da Vinci on Depression Quotes

"Experience is a truer guide than the words of others."

"Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death."

"The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can consider the infinite works of nature."

"While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

"He who does not punish evil commands it to be done."

"He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss."

"Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art."

"Blame is safer than praise."

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

"Our life is made by the death of others."

"He who thinks little, errs much."

"The sense of the mind is the pilot of the soul."

"A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves."

"Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom."

"Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences, because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics."

"The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good."

"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."

"Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold."

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

"Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature."

"Life well spent is long."

"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."

"Nature never breaks her own laws."

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."

"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."

"Every obstacle yields to stern resolve."

"The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming; thus it is with time present."

"Silence is the greatest of all sounds."

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."

"Think of the end before the beginning."

"The soul can never be infected by the corruption of the body, but acts in the body like the wind which causes the sound of the organ."

"Solitude is the school of genius."

"Shun those studies in which the result dies with the worker."