For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

— Leonardo da Vinci

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

— Leonardo da Vinci

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

— Leonardo da Vinci

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

— Leonardo da Vinci

He who thinks little errs much…

— Leonardo da Vinci

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

— Leonardo da Vinci