Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Interpretation
Living a fulfilling life leads to peace and satisfaction at its end.
Leonardo Da Vinci's quote reflects on the idea that just as a productive and fulfilling day results in a contented sleep, a life lived with purpose, intention, and fulfillment leads to a peaceful conclusion. The concept emphasizes the importance of making the most out of our time, suggesting that our daily choices and the way we live profoundly impact our overall satisfaction and eventual mortality.
In practice
In a graduation speech urging students to find meaningful careers.
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
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.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.
The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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