As a well spent day affords happy sleep, so does a life profitably employed afford a happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci (translated by Maurice Baring)
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Thoughts on Art and Life, I: Thoughts on Life, 100 (1906); Complete aphorism100 read with surrounding entries96–101 in Maurice Baring’s credited public-domain translation. Uses the wording in the numbered text, rather than the different paraphrase quoted in the editor’s introduction.
- Thoughts on Art and Life, I: Thoughts on Life, 100 (1906)
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