"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.) - Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Uno non può possedere capacità più grande o più piccola della padronanza di se stesso.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Men do wrong to lament the flight of time, complaining that it passes too quickly and failing to perceive that its period is sufficiently long; but a good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes everything that is long past to appear to us to be present.

If you meet with any one who is virtuous do not drive him from you; do him honour, so that he may not have to flee from you and be reduced to hiding in hermitages, or caves or other solitary places to escape from your treachery; if there is such an one among you do him honour, for these are our Saints upon earth; these are they who deserve statues from us, and images...