It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters. - Leonardo da Vinci

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Engraved portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, facing left

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

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About Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and musician. His best known painting is the Mona Lisa.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Attributed to Francesco Melzi (Public domain / CC0)

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Alternative Names: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci Leonard Léonard Leonardo Da Vinci

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"Uno non può possedere capacità più grande o più piccola della padronanza di se stesso."
(One can have no greater or lesser mastery than of oneself.)

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

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