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Original ital.: "Nessuno effetto è in natura sanza ragione; intendi la ragione e non ti bisogna sperienzia."
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Übersetzung: Marianne Schneider
Wörtlicher (und vollständiger): "Obwohl das menschliche Genie in verschiedenen Erfindungen mit verschiedenen Mitteln zu einem und demselben Ziel antwortet, wird es nie eine Erfindung weder schöner, noch leichter, noch kürzer als die der Natur finden, weil in ihren Erfindungen nichts fehlt und nichts überflüssig ist." - 1910/11? http://books.google.de/books?id=vVwXAQAAIAAJ&q=genie
Original: "Anchorachè lo ingiegnio vmano faccia inuentioni varie, rispondendo con uari strumenti a un medesimo fine, mai esso troverà inuentione più bella, né più facile, né più brieue della Natura, perché nelle sue invenzioni nulla manca e nulla è superfluo [...]" - Codex Windsor 19115r, Richter II no. 837 p. 126 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=A7dUhbBfmzMC&pg=PA126.

Charles Nicholl: Leonardo da Vinci. Die Biographie. Aus dem Englischen von Michael Bischoff. Frankfurt/M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-16920-7.(S.215)
Original: "E tirato dalla mia bramosa voglia, vago di vedere la gran copia delle varie e strane forme fatte dalla artificiosa natura raggiratomi alquanto infra gli ombrosi scogli, pervenni all’entrata d’una caverna, dinanzi alla quale, restato alquanto stupefatto e ignorante di tal cosa, piegato le mie reni in arco, e ferma la stanca mano sopra il ginocchio e colla destra mi feci tenebre alle abbassate e chiuse ciglia, e spesso piegandomi in qua e in là per vedere dentro, vi discernessi alcuna cosa, e questo vietatomi per la grande oscurità che là entro era. È stato alquanto, subito s’alza in me due cose: paura e desiderio, paura per la minacciosa oscura spelonca, desiderio di vedere se là entro fosse alcuna miracolosa cosa." - Codex Arundel 155r, Richter II no. 1339 Zeile 16-27 p. 395 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=A7dUhbBfmzMC&pg=PA395dq=tirato; englische Übersetzung von Richter auch bei en.wikisource https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Leonardo_Da_Vinci/XXI.

Manuskript H, Folio 119
Original ital.: "Chi poco pensa molto erra."
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Variante: Wer wenig denkt, irrt viel.

zitiert in Claus Leitzmann: Vegetarismus. Grundlagen, Vorteile, Risiken. Verlag C. H. Beck, München 2009, S. 10 http://books.google.de/books?id=-ioq-ZTbeGUC&pg=PA10
Englisch: "[I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and] the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." - angeblich "From da Vinci`s Notes" in Jon Wynne-Tyson: The Extended Circle. A Dictionary of Humane Thought. Centaur Press 1985, p. 65 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=1mMbAQAAIAAJ&q=murder.
Tatsächlich ist das "Zitat" nicht auf Leonardo zurückzuführen, sondern auf den historischen Roman Leonardo da Vinci ( Воскресшие боги. Леонардо да Винчи http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8._%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE_%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B8, 1900) von Dmitri Mereschkowski. Dort heißt es im sechsten Kapitel Tagebuch des Giovanni Boltraffio:
"Der Meister [Leonardo da Vinci] leidet es nicht, daß man einem lebenden Wesen irgendwelchen Schaden zufügt, selbst nicht den Pflanzen. Zoroastro erzählte mir, daß er schon seit seiner frühesten Jugend aus diesem Grunde kein Fleisch genießt: es werde eine Zeit kommen, meine er, da alle Menschen, gleich ihm, sich mit Pflanzenkost begnügen und das Schlachten der Tiere als ein ebenso großes Verbrechen ansehen würden wie den Mord an einem Menschen." - Übersetzt von H. von Hoerschelmann. Berlin, Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1935? S. 180 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=1MMRT9kmcMYC&pg=PA180
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Manuskript L, Folio 90
Original ital.: "La paura nasce più tosto che altra cosa."
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Manuskript I, Folio 15
Original ital.: "Chi non stima la vita, non la merita."
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Aforismi, novelle e profezie
Original ital.: "La sapienza è figliola della sperienzia."
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Aforismi, novelle e profezie
Original ital.: "Chi vuol esser ricco in un dì, è impiccato in un anno."
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DER SPIEGEL 1/1963 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-45142029.html nach Barnaby Conrad: Famous Last Words. Verlag Alvin Redman, London
Zugrunde liegt dem Vasaris Darstellung von Leonardos Tod in den Armen des Königs Franz I., die in korrekter Übersetzung lautet:
"Er [Leonardo] richtete sich ehrfurchtsvoll auf, um im Bett zu sitzen, schilderte ihm sein Übel mit allen Umständen und klagte, daß er gegen Gott und die Menschen gefehlt habe, da er in der Kunst nichts getan hätte, wie es seine Pflicht gewesen wäre."
italienisch: "Egli per reverenza, rizzatosi a sedere sul letto, contando il mal suo e gli accidenti di quello, mostrava tuttavia, quanto aveva offeso Dio e gli uomini del mondo, non avendo operato nell' arte come si conveniva." - Giorgio Vasari: Le vite IV 36 vasari.sns.it http://vasari.sns.it/cgi-bin/vasari/Vasari-all?code_f=print_page&work=le_vite&volume_n=4&page_n=36
Diese Darstellung befand schon Jean Paul Richter 1883 in seiner Ausgabe der Schriften Leonardos für unglaubhaft und offensichtlich erfunden (incredible and demonstrably fictitious legend, Notebooks XIX 1.1 en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Leonardo_Da_Vinci/XIX), eine Ansicht, der sich 1910 auch Sigmund Freud in seiner Schrift " Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chronologie/20Jh/Freud/fre_leo1.html#z04" anschloss.
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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies

A Treatise on Painting (1651); "The Paragone"; compiled by Francesco Melzi prior to 1542, first published as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne (1651)
Kontext: Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.

This quotation was first used in print (and misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci) in a science fiction story published in 1975, The Storms of Windhaven. One of the authors, Lisa Tuttle, remembers that the quote was suggested by science fiction writer Ben Bova, who says he believes he got the quote from a TV documentary narrated by Fredric March, presumably I, Leonardo da Vinci, written by John H. Secondari for the series Saga of Western Man, which aired on 23 February 1965. Bova incorrectly assumed that he was quoting da Vinci. The probable author is John Hermes Secondari (1919-1975), American author and television producer.
Misattributed
Variante: For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Variante: 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.
Quelle: Leonardo's Notebooks

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

Quoted allegedly "From da Vinci`s Notes" in Jon Wynne-Tyson: The Extended Circle. A Dictionary of Humane Thought. Centaur Press 1985, p. 65 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=1mMbAQAAIAAJ&q=murder.
Actually the quote is not authentic but made up from a novel by Dmitri Merejkowski (w:Dmitry Merezhkovsky) entitled "The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci" (La Résurrecton de Dieux 1901), translated from Russian into English by Herbert Trench. G.P. Putnam's Sons New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press. There, in Book (i.e. chapter) VI, entitled The Diary of Giovanni Boltraffio, one finds the following:
The master [Leonardo da Vinci] permits harm to no living creatures, not even to plants. Zoroastro http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Masini tells me that from an early age he has abjured meat, and says that the time shall come when all men such as he will be content with a vegetable diet, and will think on the murder of animals as now they think on the murder of men ( p. 226 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=g_pa0OaYX64C&pg=PA226).
However, despite the quote's false attribution, da Vinci was in fact a vegetarian.
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade

"Of servants"
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

As quoted in The 48 Laws of Power (2000) by Robert Greene, p. 33

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations