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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

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.
Leonardo da Vinci


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.

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Translation

Translation

(French, German, Italian)



French
L'eau que vous touchez dans les rivières est la dernière qui s'en va et la première qui arrive. Ainsi va le temps présent.
Léonard de Vinci

German
Bei einem Fluss ist das Wasser, das man berührt, das letzte von dem, was vorübergeströmt ist, und das erste von dem, was kommt. So ist es auch mit der Gegenwart.
Leonardo da Vinci

Italian
L'acqua che tocchi de' fiumi è l'ultima di quella che andò e la prima di quella che viene. Cosí il tempo presente.



See also 

See also...



Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci

You could not step twice into the same river.
Heraclitus of Ephesus

Our deeds, our feelings, our thoughts, and our sensations just happen of themselves, as the rain falls and the water flows along the valley.
Alan Watts - In My Own Way

Nor is it right to say there are three times: past, present and future. Perhaps it would be more correct to say: there are three times: a present of things past, a present of things present, a present of things future.
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

Consciousness is a link between what was and what will be; a bridge between the past and the future.
Henri Bergson - L’Énergie spirituelle

Time itself flows on in constant motion, just like a river. For neither the river nor the swift hour can stop its course; but, as wave is pushed on by wave, and as each wave is both impelled by that behind and itself impels the wave in front, so time both flees and follows and is ever new. For that which once existed is no more, and that which was not has come to be; and so the whole round of motion is gone through again.
Publius Ovidius Naso - Metamorphoses

With each heavy storm of rain
⁠Change comes o'er thy valley fair;
Once, alas! but not again
⁠Can the same stream hold thee e'er.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Dauer im Wechsel



Quotes for: time


Quotes

Quotes about time:


Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon - Novum organum / 





Time is a great master; it regulates things well.
Pierre Corneille - Sertorius / 





It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince / 





Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères / 





Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus / 





What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions / 






All about time...




Quotes for: present


Quotes

Quotes about the present:


Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca / 





Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein / 





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Gautama Buddha / 





Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères / 






All about the present...




Quotes for: water


Quotes

Quotes about water:


Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan Watts / 





The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings / 





My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain





The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau





They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





There is nothing softer and weaker than water,
And yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.
Laozi / 






All about water...




Quotes

Leonardo da Vinci also said...


Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
Leonardo da Vinci / 





All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci / 





As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Trivulzianus / 





He who walks straight rarely falls.
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Atlanticus / 





Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Forster / 





Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci / 







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