Leonardo da Vinci Quote

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 offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.


The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Richter, 1888) - XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.


Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold...

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold...

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold...

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold...