It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.
Leonardo da VinciMechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.
Leonardo da VinciThe mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.
Leonardo da Vinci