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Biography - Leonardo da Vinci:

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.



Translation

Translation

(German, French, Italian)



German
Wie ein gut verbrachter Tag einen glücklichen Schlaf beschert, so beschert ein gut verbrachtes Leben einen glücklichen Tod.

French
Une journée bien remplie donne un bon sommeil. Une vie bien remplie donne une mort tranquille.

Italian
Sì come una giornata bene spesa dà lieto dormire, così una vita bene usata dà lieto morire.




See also 

See also...



Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Sleep and Death are twin brothers.

He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.




Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: sleep


Quotes

Quotes for: sleep


Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.





When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.





Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.





Sleep is the best meditation.





We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.





Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.











Quotes for: death


Quotes

Quotes about death:


The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.





Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.





A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.





After your death you will be what you were before your birth.





Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.





Neither the sun nor death can be looked at without winking.











Quotes for: day


Quotes

Quotes for: day


The sun is new each day.





Seize the day.





The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.





The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.





A day without laughter is a day wasted.





You cannot hold the day back, but you can avoid wasting it.
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Quotes

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.





Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.





All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.





He who walks straight rarely falls.





Wisdom is the daughter of experience.





Life well spent is long.












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