{"author":"Leonardo da Vinci","author_id":"Leonardo+da+Vinci","total_quotes":114,"quotes":[{"text":"You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.","author":"Leonardo da Vinci","tags":["life","life-lesson","self-control"],"id":3805,"author_id":"Leonardo+da+Vinci"},{"text":"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.","author":"Leonardo da Vinci","tags":["action","evil","inaction"],"id":12091,"author_id":"Leonardo+da+Vinci"},{"text":"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.","author":"Leonardo da Vinci","tags":["work","beautiful","body "],"id":22953,"author_id":"Leonardo+da+Vinci"},{"text":"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.","author":"Leonardo da Vinci","tags":["art","painting"],"id":29874,"author_id":"Leonardo+da+Vinci"},{"text":"To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to these senses – ribelli ad essi sensi – such as the existence of God or of the soul or similar things over which there is always dispute and contention. And in fact it happens that whenever reason is wanting men to cry out against one another, which does not happen with certainties. For this reason we shall say that where the cry of controversy is heard, there is no true science, because the truth has one single end and when this is published, argument is destroyed for ever.","author":"Leonardo da Vinci","tags":["experience","religious","science","universal-truths"],"id":32615,"author_id":"Leonardo+da+Vinci"},{"text":"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.","author":"Leonardo da Vinci","tags":["dying","last-words"],"id":36433,"author_id":"Leonardo+da+Vinci"},{"text":"The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.","author":"Leonardo da Vinci","tags":["darkness","eye","light","perception","seeing","sun"],"id":36520,"author_id":"Leonardo+da+Vinci"},{"text":"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.","author":"Leonardo da Vinci","tags":["art","leonardo","leonardo da vinci","science"],"id":56266,"author_id":"Leonardo+da+Vinci"},{"text":"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.","author":"Leonardo da Vinci","tags":["simplicity"],"id":57159,"author_id":"Leonardo+da+Vinci"},{"text":"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.","author":"Leonardo da Vinci","tags":["acquiescence","ity","complicity","dissent","protest","silence"],"id":61589,"author_id":"Leonardo+da+Vinci"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":114,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}