Quote of Leonardo da Vinci - Nature never breaks her own laws....

Biography - Leonardo da Vinci:

Italian Renaissance polymath.
Born: 1452 - Died: 1519
Period:
16th century
15th century
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

Quote

Nature never breaks her own laws.”
Leonardo da Vinci

Translation

(German)

Die Natur bricht niemals ihre eigenen Gesetze.”
Leonardo da Vinci

Quotes about nature:

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”
Albrecht Dürer

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
Francis Bacon

nature

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
Edvard Munch

People must help one another it is nature's law.”
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables

All about nature...

Quotes for: law:

There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.”
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.”
Immanuel Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

People must help one another it is nature's law.”
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables

Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

All for: law...

Leonardo da Vinci also said...

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
Leonardo da Vinci

He who thinks little, errs much.”
Leonardo da Vinci

to think

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”
Leonardo da Vinci

friendship

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
Leonardo da Vinci

knowledge

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Trivulzianus

He who walks straight rarely falls.”
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Atlanticus

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