1283

@ Fables on plants.

An artizan often going to visit a great gentleman without any definite purpose, the gentleman asked him what he did this for. The other said that he came there to have a pleasure which his lordship could not have; since to him it was a satisfaction to see men greater than himself, as is the way with the populace; while the gentleman could only see men of less consequence than himself; and so lords and great men were deprived of that pleasure.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
XX: Humorous Writings.
. . .
1263,
1264
Fables on animals.
1265,
1266,
1267,
1268,
1269,
1270
Fables on lifeless objects.
1271,
1272,
1273,
1274
@ Fables on plants.
1275,
1276,
1277,
1278,
1279,
1280,
1281,
1282,
1283,
1284,
1285,
1286,
1287,
1288,
1289,
1290,
1291,
1292,
1293,
1294,
1295,
1296,
1297,
1298,
1299,
1300,
1301,
1302,
1303
. . .