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Biography - Leonardo da Vinci:

Italian Renaissance polymath.
Born: 1452 - Died: 1519
Period:
16th century
15th century
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Und die ganze Zeit, da ich dachte, ich lernte zu leben, da lernte ich zu sterben.

French
Alors que je croyais apprendre à vivre, j'apprenais à mourir.




See also 

See also...



The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Philosophize is to learn how to die.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and — what will perhaps make you wonder more — it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.




Quotes for: to learn


Quotes

Quotes for: to learn


Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.





It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





When you lose, don't lose the lesson.





You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.











Quotes for: to live


Quotes

Quotes for: to live


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





My trade and art is to live.





You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.











Quotes for: to die


Quotes

Quotes for: to die


We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.





I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.





To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.





The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.





Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.





He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.











Quotes

Leonardo da Vinci also said...


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.





Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.





All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.





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





He who walks straight rarely falls.





Wisdom is the daughter of experience.












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