1176

How to spend life.

Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

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

1175 * 1177

XVIII * XX

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

XIX: Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

. . .

1156,

1157,

1158,

1159,

1160,

1161

What is life?.

1162,

1163

Death.

1164

How to spend life.

1165,

1166,

1167,

1168,

1169,

1170,

1171,

1172,

1173,

1174,

1175,

1176,

1177,

1178,

1179

On foolishness and ignorance.

1180,

1181,

1182

On riches.

1183,

1184,

1185,

1186,

1187

Rules of Life.

1188,

1189,

1190,

1191,

1192,

1193,

1194,

1195,

1196

. . .