Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in the town of Vinci, not far from Florence in Italy.

He was the love child of a notary by the name of Ser Piero da Vinci and Caterina, a woman from a peasant family who went on to marry someone else when Leonardo was still a boy. Leonardo’s father married a young girl of 16 years old who unfortunately died young, and then went on to marry a 20 year old when Leonardo was 16.  Due to his parents other partners, Leonardo was to have 17 half-siblings.

Quotes :

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.