Leonardo Da Vinci on Depression Quotes

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

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

"Silence is the greatest of all sounds."

"The shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective."

"Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it."

"Life well spent is long."

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

"Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature."

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

"In nature there is no effect without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment."

"Every obstacle yields to stern resolve."

"Nature never breaks her own laws."

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

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

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

"Blame is safer than praise."

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

"Think of the end before the beginning."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Solitude is the school of genius."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."